![]() ![]() "I hope we're not saying "Mayday!'" LaRocca says. It's very small, but you can see Alwar's glasses and LaRocca's curly hair. "I was like, 'I hope that's OK!' "Įven LaRocca is in the book - she and Alwar appear as little stick figures, on a sailboat, in a picture hanging on the wall in the vacation house. "It's a lot of me and a lot of the people I know in this book," Alwar says. Many of her family members appear in her illustrations. Her "cousins" were the other Tamil immigrants she grew up around in the U.S., as well as her relatives back home. ![]() ![]() Familiar facesĪlwar grew up in a double-immigrant family from South India. Alwar says when she first got the manuscript, she immediately felt like she was on vacation with Ravi and his family. LaRocca and illustrator Abhi Alwar didn't come up with the story together, though they do talk like they've been friends for years. "When it rains, we stay inside and work on a huge puzzle with tiny pieces." "We spend our days biking, playing, reading, napping," LaRocca writes in the book. There's lots of sitting around doing nothing much in particular and there's lots and lots of food. LaRocca filled the book with universal details. Because they're kids, but they're not your siblings." "Cousins are kind of like superstar relatives. "All of my favorite summer memories involved my cousins," she says. Because they're kids, but they're not your siblings. Cousins are kind of like superstar relatives. ![]()
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