Mi Cuba, Para Ti! Volume 2

5 Bilingual Stories · Ages 5–10 · 106 pages · Spanish and English

Some children grow up with two last names. Two birthdays. Two languages. Two ways of measuring time. Two versions of their own name, one for home, one for everywhere else.

This book is for those children. And for every family that raised them.

What's inside

Five original bilingual picture stories, each built around one of the "two worlds" that Cuban children navigate growing up outside the island. Every story is told with warmth, honesty, and the particular humor that comes from living between two cultures — not as a problem to solve, but as a richness to carry. Spanish text appears large and primary throughout. English translation follows in a smaller italic font.

The 5 stories

Who this book is for

For Cuban families raising children far from the island, wherever in the world that may be. These stories carry the humor, the tenderness, and the specific pride of growing up Cuban outside Cuba, into any home, in any country, in any language. For grandparents who want grandchildren to understand what it means to belong to two worlds at once. For bilingual educators looking for stories that speak directly to bicultural children's daily lives. For any child who has ever felt like they were too much of one thing and not enough of another and needed to hear that the two things together are the point.

A note on the "Mis Dos" stories

Every story in this volume begins with the same two words: Mis Dos — My Two. Two surnames. Two birthdays. Two names. Two times. Two languages. Not because Cuban children are divided, but because they are doubled. These stories are not about choosing between two worlds. They are about understanding that having two is not half of something. It is twice as much.