When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita.
A Bank Street Best Children\'s Picture Book of the Year in Spanish Una selección del Junior Library Guild A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.
An English edition, The Little House of Hope , is also available.
With Una Casita de Esperanza , she tells an inspiring, semi-autobiographical story of how immigrants can help each other find their footing in a new country. in 1961, when she was twelve years old.
Terry Catasus Jennings first came from Cuba to the U.
S.
It\'s a safe place in a new land.
Esperanza is always the first to welcome them, making sure that la Casita offers a home for those who don\'t have a place to go.
Together they turn the house into a place where other new immigrants can help one another and feel accepted.
When Mami\'s sister Conchita comes to stay with them, she helps other families by taking care of their children during the day.
As Esperanza and her family settle into their new house, they all do their part to make it a home, working multiple jobs and doing chores to pitch in.
But even though they were far from home, The family was together. . .
It smelled like old wet socks.
It was small. . .
Una Casita .
It was a little house.
It may be small, but they soon prove that there\'s room enough to share with a whole community.
When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita
