About Carmela Full of Wishes

It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to accompany her big brother on his errands. On their way to the laundromat, past fields of what her Mamí calls “flores de cempazuchitl”, Carmela finds a puffy white dandelion to blow, but her brother asks “Did you even make a wish?”  Full of touching and funny fantasies, Carmela must decide what her deepest wish is and she must do it before her birthday is over.

New Mexico State University