Lolo’s Sari-sari Store

*SIGNED BOOKPLATES*

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.