Pat Mora

It's dinnertime. Look at all the food Es la hora de cenar. Cu nta comida There are beans, tortillas, Hay frijoles, tortillas, cheese, and even a green salad. queso y hasta una ensalada de lechuga. Enough for the whole family. Suficiente para toda la familia. Let's sit down and enjoy it together. Vamos a sentarnos y disfrutarla juntos. Let's eat A comer This first book in the new bilingual My Family/Mi familia series will charm readers with its close-knit family--a family that is grateful for its many blessings. ste es el primer libro de la nueva serie My Family/ Mi familia. Los lectores quedar n encantados con esta familia unida que se siente agradecida por todas sus bendiciones.

A collection of haiku focusing on fourteen foods native to the Americas, celebrating the fun of the foods as well as their origins. Smear nutty butter, then jelly. Gooey party, my sandwich and me. Peanuts, blueberries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and more -- here is a luscious collection of haiku celebrating foods native to the Americas. Brimming with imagination and fun, these poems capture the tasty essence of foods that have delighted, united, and enriched our lives for centuries. Exuberant illustrations bring to life the delicious spirit of the haiku, making Yum Mmmm Qu rico an eye-popping, mouth-watering treat. Open it and dig in Translated from Yum MmMm Qu Rico Americas' Sproutings.

Drawing on oral and lyrical traditions, this book honors the grace and spirit of mothers, daughters, lovers, and goddesses. From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, the poems explore the intimate and sacred spaces of borderlands through many voices: a revolutionary, a domestic worker, a widow.

Wine-sipping syllables, a communion of bones, impetuous pinches of chile, and parrot-sassy guacamole. With a melange of aromas and tastes, colors and sounds, award-winning poet Pat Mora invites readers into her home in this new collection of forty-nine odes. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's Odas Elemantales and reinvented with a Latina identity, Mora celebrates the ordinary in lyrics that are anything but. Her poetry is the poetry of space?house patterns and adobe constructions, nd the human rhythms that happen inside. It is also the poetry of what she loves?chocolate, books, dandelions, church bells, hope, courage, and even rain. Thick with the microcultures of foodstuffs, family, places, regions, deities, spirits, and literary figures, Mora's adobe universe is luscious and tactile, elemental and dynamic. From family gossip and beauty secrets, to women darning hand-me-downs, to reluctant hands carrying bodies across borders, Mora traverses the tangled threads of culture, community, family, gender, and injustice. Her vivid observations together with her deft handling of symmetry and meter make her poetry uniquely insightful, subtle, and elegant. Sprinkled with Spanish and plenty of spice, each ode is a sensory flurry of mind and body. Together they make a cauldron of flavorful, simmering language. They are meant to be savored as they slowly stir the soul.

"Baa-baa," sang the lamb. "Shoo, go play," said Francis, but the little lamb just grinned and trotted happily behind the man, who preached to people and dogs and flowers and fish and frogs. With lilting verse and playful imagery, award-winning author Pat Mora celebrates the tender relationship between the beloved saint, and the animals he loved. Woodcut artist David Frampton captures the exuberant songs of Francis and the animals in charming, colorful woodcuts that underscore the harmony between humans and the natural world. Inspired by Saint Francis's own reverence, and love for animals, this book will encourage readers young and old to join in with the clucks of the chickens, the whirring of the cicadas, and the songs of the nightingale.

Do a Flor, una se ora gigante, vive en un pueblo peque ito. Los vecinos la adoran y ella adora a sus vecinos. Deja que los ni os utilicen las flores de su jard n como trompetas y las tortillas como balsas. A Do a Flor le encanta leer y con frecuencia puedes verla rodeada de ni os que escuchan atentos las historias de sus libros. Un d a un tremendo aullido de animal proveniente de las afueras del pueblo asusta a todos, incluida a Do a Flor. Quiere proteger a sus queridos vecinos y con ayuda de sus amigos los animales, se dirige hacia la meseta m s alta, en busca de la terrible fiera. Pero cu l no ser su sorpresa cuando descubre que tras semejante estruendo se esconde una peque a criatura. Pat Mora y Raul Col n colaboran nuevamente para traernos una tierna historia sobre una mujer gigante con un coraz n muy grande. El ltimo trabajo de Pat Mora y Raul Col n, Tom s y la se ora de la biblioteca, fue galardonado con el premio Tom s Rivera.

With the help of his friends, Much, the toad, defeats the overconfident Keej, the deer, in a race.

"Una historia biling e sobre algunos de los animales y sonidos com nmente encontrados en el desierto del suroeste. Cada doble p gina representa una enorme extensi n de cielo celeste con cuatro l neas de texto --dos en ingl s y dos en espa ol-- en la p gina izquierda y una criatura o escena diferente en la p gina derecha . . . las traducciones son apropiadas y proveen una excelente oportunidad para comparar los sonidos en ambos idiomas . . . las ilustraciones evocan el arte amerindio con formas y color, y las bases de las p ginas est n adornadas con dise os geom tricos. Este libro es bueno para leer en voz alta; el p blico joven disfrutar el texto predecible y repetitivo, y su formato biling e realza su atractivo en una variedad de ambientes multiculturales". --School Library Journal"A bilingual account of some of the animals and sounds commonly found in the Southwestern desert. Each double-page spread depicts a vast expanse of light blue sky with four lines of text--two in English and two in Spanish--on the verso, and a different creature or scene on the recto. . . . The translations are appropriate and provide an excellent opportunity to compare the sounds in the two languages. . . . The illustrations evoke Native American art in shapes and colors, and the bottoms of the pages are adorned with geometric designs. This book is a good choice for reading aloud; young audiences will enjoy the predictable, repetitive text, and its bilingual format enhances its appeal in a variety of multicultural settings."--School Library Journal

Las ilustraciones retratan a dos hermanas yendo de tienda a tienda comprando regalos de cumplea os para su madre. El texto en rima presenta a los n meros del uno al diez en ingl s y espa ol. Pictures depict two sisters going from shop to shop buying birthday presents for their mother. Rhyming text presents numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish.

In this poem in English and Spanish, lizards, armadillos, and other creatures of the night make merry beneath the desert moon

Tom s es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, l y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y dif ciles d as en el campo, durante la temporada de la cosecha de frutas y verduras. Por las noches, a veces, se re nen a escuchar los maravillosos cuentes de pap grande, el abuelo de Tom s. Con el tiempo, Tom s se aprende todos los cuentos de memoria. Hay muchos otros cuentos en la biblioteca - le dice pap grande. Y al d a siguiente, Tom s conoce a la se ora de la biblioteca, quien le abre las puertas a un nuevo mundo. Este alentador cuento de Pat Mora es acerca de la ni ez de Tom s Rivera, quien lleg a ser rector de la Universidad de California en Riverside.

To celebrate the birthday of her beloved great aunt (or tia), young Cecilia gathers together a basket full of cherished memories. By the author of Pablo's Tree. Reprint. SLJ.

A poetic depiction of the desert as the provider of comfort, food, spirit, and life