Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection
Family Connection Collection

Family Connection Collection

✦ Hardcover set · Ages 3–8

Three stories. One real family. A shelf they'll grow up with.

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What's inside the Collection

  • 📗 Going Fishing with My Grandpas: four generations, one first catch · Bilingual
  • 📙 Today Is My Birthday: 🏅 ILBA Finalist & Honorable Mention · Bilingual
  • 📕 Spending The Day With My Grandma: a whole day of abuela moments · English
  • ✓ Two per-sentence bilingual books plus one warm English read-aloud
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✍️All three signed on request
🎁Ready to gift, arrives as a set

 

Welcome to the Family Connection Collection by Grandma Cookie     

Some books are read once and forgotten. These are the ones families return to again and again.

The Family Connection Collection is a nationwide, multi-award-winning series of bilingual children’s books written from the heart celebrating the irreplaceable bond between grandparents, parents, and children. In a world that never seems to slow down, these stories create the perfect reason to pause, snuggle up, and be fully present with the little ones who grow up far too fast.

Each book is an invitation to laugh together, to remember together, and to build the kind of traditions that get passed down like a favorite recipe or a well worn quilt.

 The Collection

Spending the Day with My Grandma (English)

A warm, tender celebration of grandma’s world where everything feels a little softer and a little sweeter.

 Going Fishing with My Grandpa (Bilingual: English & Spanish)

Adventure, patience, and the kind of quiet magic only grandpa can teach.

Today Is My Birthday (Bilingual: English & Spanish)

Because every child deserves to feel like the most celebrated person in the room.

The greatest gift you can give a child isn’t something you’ll find on a shelf. It’s the twenty minutes you spend beside them, turning pages, doing the voices, and making them feel special. 

These books just make it easier to start. 

 

The Collection ships as one gift-ready package within 3–5 business days via USPS with tracking. US shipping is free, and this set qualifies.

Want the books signed? Add a note at checkout with the name (or names) for the dedications and Cookie will sign all three before they ship.

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What you're getting

Three stories your family will ask for again and again

English & SpanishGoing Fishing With My GranpasBook 1

Going Fishing With My Granpas

Four generations on one pier: grandpa, dad, great-grandpa, and one very first catch. Every sentence in English, then in Spanish.

🏅 Award winner · BilingualToday Is My Birthday | Ages 3–8Book 2

Today Is My Birthday

The birthday celebration recognized by the International Latino Book Awards, told in both languages.

English editionSpending The Day With My Grandma | Ages 3–8 English onlyBook 3

Spending The Day With My Grandma

A whole day of abuela moments, the little rituals that become the memories they keep. Written in warm read-aloud English.

Bought separately: $59.50 The Collection: $47.99 You save $11.51
Meet the author

Hear Grandma Cookie tell the story behind all three books

One conversation about all three books and the family behind them.

Moments like these

This is what the Collection looks like in real life

Real family, real story time. The same people the books are written about.

Matching caps, matching stories

The whole crew

Story time with abuela

Reading buddies for life

Why the whole set

One book becomes the favorite. Then they ask what happens next.

Bedtime works on repetition: the same warm voice, night after night. One Grandma Cookie book is a start. Three means there's always the next story waiting on the shelf.

Sound familiar?

  • The one book you own is memorized front to back
  • Gifts for the grandkids that actually mean something are hard to find
  • You're buying books one at a time, paying shipping each time
  • You want story time they ask for again, not another toy

With all three on the shelf

  • ✓ A different story every night, one familiar voice
  • ✓ Grandpa's story, grandma's story, and a birthday: every reader has "theirs"
  • ✓ One box, one shipment, ready to gift
  • ✓ 20% less than buying one at a time

Three stories, one shelf, every night covered

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The Family Connection Collection

Ready to put all three stories on the shelf?

Every sentence in both languages. One gift-ready box. A story for every night of the week.

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Free US shipping · All three signed on request · Ships as one package


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The per-sentence method

Inside the two bilingual books

1

Read the line in English

Every sentence appears first in clear, natural English.

2

Read the same line in Spanish

The exact same sentence follows in Spanish. Same meaning, same rhythm, right underneath.

3

Watch them say it back

Children connect the two versions naturally, sentence by sentence, night after night.

Cookie at the 2025 International Latino Book Awards

From Grandma Cookie's kitchen table

When you can't find the words, I wrote them down.

These three books are my family's real moments: a fishing trip, a birthday, a day with grandma. I'm Maria "Cookie" Carrales, and I wrote every one at my kitchen table so abuelos, parents, and little ones could all read together.

  • ✓ Real moments from a real family
  • ✓ Two bilingual stories and one warm English read-aloud
  • ✓ Read in bedrooms and classrooms across the country
🏅 Finalist & Honorable Mention · ILBA🎤 Speaker · Region 20🏫 Author visits
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— Grandma Cookie 🍪

Questions families ask

Can all three books be signed?+
Yes. Cookie signs every book in the set on request. Add a note at checkout with the name (or names) for the dedications.
Do the books arrive together?+
Yes. The Collection ships as one package, gift-ready.
What ages are the books for?+
All three are written for ages 3–8 as read-alouds, and early readers enjoy them independently.
Which books are bilingual?+
Going Fishing with My Grandpas and Today Is My Birthday print every sentence in English and then in Spanish. Spending The Day With My Grandma is a warm English read-aloud.
Is this a good gift?+
It's the gift most families come back for: a complete set, that grandparents and grandkids open together. Perfect for birthdays, holidays, and new-baby welcomes.