Mi Casi Casi Mamà / My Almost-Almost Mom [Spanish]

By José Ignacio Valenzuela

Todo cambi el d a en que la se orita Edelmira Casanova anunci , con el dedo en alto, que el D a de la Madre era la fecha m s importante del a o. Yo, Clara, no pod a contener las ganas de morderme la lengua: «Eso no es cierto --murmur --. Algunas tenemos la suerte de tener dos mam s .

Y as dio inicio esta historia, cuando algunos meses antes mi pap hab a llegado a casa con una mujer de pa uelos estrafalarios y una maleta llena de misterios. Se llamaba Luisa y se supon a que deb a convertirse en mi «casi casi mam .

Lo interesante es que Luisa no era una mujer com n. Era actriz, coleccionista de turbantes imposibles y escond a un gran secreto que yo descubr una noche, espiando por una rendija.

Y entonces llegaron las tiendas de pelucas, los viajes a Egipto, los pasteles de Mar a Antonieta y una frase que cambi mi destino: « Luces, c mara y acci n .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Everything changed the day Miss Edelmira Casanova announced, with her finger raised, that Mother's Day was the most important date of the year. I, Clara, couldn't hold back the urge to bite my tongue: "That's not true," I murmured. "Some of us are lucky enough to have two moms."

And so, this story began, when a few months earlier my dad had come home with a woman in mismatched scarves and a suitcase full of mysteries. Her name was Luisa and she was supposed to become my "almost-almost mom."

The interesting thing is that Luisa wasn't an ordinary woman. She was an actress, a collector of impossible turbans, and she hid a big secret that I discovered one night, peeking through a crack.

And then came the wig shops, the trips to Egypt, Marie Antoinette's cakes, and a phrase that changed my destiny: "Lights, camera, action "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 607387460X
• ISBN13: 9786073874601
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Alfaguara Infantil
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4