New Releases by Pat Mora

From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, award-winning Chicana poet Pat Mora explores the intimate and sacred spaces of the borderlands. "Ms. Mora''s poems are poudly bilingual, an eloquent answer to purists who refuse to see language as something that lives and changes".

Ray, Lisa, and Rita find an injured dove and take it to their grandmother, who cares for the bird until it can fly again.

"Este alentador cuento de Pat Mora es acerca de la niñez de Tomás Rivera, quien llegó a ser rector de la Universidad de California en Riverside."--Back cover.

With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt''s ninetieth birthday.

This multivolume set of readers features poems, short stories, essays, and exerpts from larger works gathered together under specific themes. Each reading includes thinking, discussion, and writing activies. For example, volume 1 includes a short story under the theme of Accomplishments entitled "The scholarship jacket." Thinking activities include comprehension questions regarding facts within the story such as "Why was the scholarship jacket important to Martha?" Discussion activities take information from the story and ask the reader to analyse data ("What is the real meaning of the scholarship or other achievement award?") or make real-world connections with their own lives. Writing activities can focus on a specific incident in the story asking the reader to write a scene of dialogue for a "what would have happened if..." situation.

An illustrated collection of poems for children that celebrates the beauty of the American southwest.

"A rhyming text weaves together numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish as two sisters gather presents for their mama''s birthday from a Mexican market."--ALA "Booklist." Full color.

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.

Crow searches for water in this Aesop fable.

Bilingual picture book in English and Spanish about a poor Mexican boy who searches for a special gift for Jesus at Christmas.

Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted.

El Paso, the pass to the north, lies between vast stretches of desert. This is a geographic accident. Yet like everywhere, people live, love, marry, grow old and die. They also rejoice and despair. These poems relate all these experiences ? but in the magical presence, the telluric force, of the desert. Two women poets sing here, one in the guise of the desert, the other in the figure of Pat Mora. Together they intone Chants. The desertÍs beauty is perceived in subtle gradations of color and texture, in stark contrasts between light and darkness. It speaks as a magical force, as a lonely woman and, for our patience, offers flowers. Like the desert, Pat Mora speaks with muted tones, weaves incantations; she invests her poetic space with magical figures, yet from her loneliness come as well fear, resentment and despair. But she learns the peaceful solitude of the desert. From their dialogue, words become blossoms, fragile in desert rhythms..

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

A bilingual poem which describes some of the sounds of nature in a desert.

A bilingual poem which describes some of the sounds of nature in a desert.

To honor her great aunt''s 90th birthday, Cecilia fills a basket with cherished objects that remind her of their times together-a favorite book, a red ball, a teacup, and flowers. She proudly presents the basket to her tia abuela at the surprise party.

Busquen palabras que hablen de numeros y despues cuenten esa misma cantidad de pidrecitas en el dibujo. Vuelvan a leer Agua, Agua, Agua haciendo las preguntas y respondiendolas por turnos.

Each year on his birthday, a young Mexican-American boy looks forward to seeing how his grandfather has decorated the tree he planted on the day the boy was adopted.

Poetic rendition of the relationship between nature and Hispanic and Native American people.

Two stories, one presenting the sounds of the desert, the other, aspects of home.

With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt''s ninetieth birthday.

Communion, a third collection of poetry by Pat Mora, builds upon her previous writings and her new experiences to provide a healing voice, additional depth and maturity, and an international perspective in considering the art of poetry itself, male/female relationships, separation from children, homeland and tradition. The concerns of our domestic culture in the United States are seen here from within the framework of the Third World in Asia and Latin America. The poetic works of Pat Mora once more explore the themes of womanhood, political and sexual borders, the Southwest and interior landscapes, all in a rich, lyrical style.

"In Borders, Mora explores the political, cultural, social, and emotional borders that divide people, forming their individual identities."--Publisher.

Whimsical poem, presented bilingually, tells of birds, armadillos, and other creatures who join together in a kitchen one orange night to make merry beneath the desert moon.

While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.