Lolo's Sari-sari Store

(Hardback)

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A little girl holds lessons learned in her grandfathers sari-sari store close while adjusting to a new home in this sweet picture book about the joy of community, connection, and Filipino culture.

For one girl, summers used to mean helping Lolo run his sari-sari store, which was always brimming with goods for the neighborhood: shampoo packets for Ate Jane, rice and eggs for Tonton, and a sympathetic ear for anyone who needed it. Sari-sari means a good varietyjust look around and youll see. What help can you give your community Lolo would say, as he filled his shelves with what people would need.

Now that shes far from the Philippines, she misses Lolo and the friendly faces that surrounded his sari-sari store. But when she remembers her grandfathers words, her heart keeps Lolo close, and she starts to see opportunities for connection and community in her new home.

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Sophia N. Leegrew up in the Philippines. She wanted to be many things growing up: doctor, teacher, ballerina, ninja, crime-fighting international spy, wizard, time traveler, journalist, and lawyer. She likes to think she can be all these things and more through writing. She is the author ofSoaring Saturdays;What Things Mean, which won a Scholastic Asian Book Awards grand prize;Holding On; andLolos Sari-sari Store. Learn more about her at SophiaLeeWrites.com.

Christine Almedais a Filipino American freelance illustrator and lover of sunshine from New Jersey.Lolos Sari-sari Storeis her first picture book. Christine believes that, through the power of creativity and storytelling, art can make life more beautiful. Visit her at ChristineAlmeda.com or @EyChristine.