In a joyful bilingual picture book, three Latino children share riddles and stories with their parents and grandparents as they eat watermelon on Sunday afternoon on the porch in the country. Abuelo remembers that when he was a boy, he helped his father harvest watermelons and sell them along the highway and in the barrios. In fact, that's how Abuelo met his wife. When her mother sent her to buy a watermelon, her dog jumped in the truck and went after Abuelo, and he dropped the fruit. His face was redder that the watermelon lying all over the street, but he was in love. The text appears in both English and Spanish on each page, and Howard's full-page, realistic pastel illustrations--in sepia tones for the story from the past, in bright shades of red and blue for the present--show the warm family close-up, sharing food, talk, and laughter.