Language Legacies

This lyrical picturebook features a multigenerational multicultural (Latinx and Asian) and multilingual (English Spanish Lao and Punjabi) family. Leo and his gender-non-conforming sibling Luca love playing superheroes together. In a world where shapeshifting and climbing towers are common superpowers how can languages be a superpower? Leo and Luca go on a journey shared with their families and witness how language is a superpower that allows them to travel through time connect with their ancestors' past and how it is a powerful inheritance. This is a story about heritage languages as legacies and resistance.