Best Selling Books by Pat Mora

"A series of verses, in English and Spanish, about the movement and moods of water around the world and the ways in which water affects a variety of landscapes and cultures."--Provided by publisher.

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

"A collection of original poems that celebrate family, universal childhood experiences, and the pure pleasure a young girl feels as her mastery and understanding grow throughout the seasons of a year"--

With lilting verse and playful imagery, this award-winning author celebrates the tender relationship between the beloved saint and the animals whom he adored.

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".

An inspiring collection of Pat Mora''s own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, and singing.

Four Bilingual paperback/ and one CD in a large hang-up bag.

Stella loves her family and her Mexican heritage, but she doesn''t always like being different from the other kids at school.

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

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

When a gust from her grandfather''s blowgun causes Luna to tumble from the sky and fall into the ocean, the little fishes help her rise once again, in an updated retelling of a traditional Mopan Maya myth from Belize. Reprint.

Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise.

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.

From blueberries to vanilla, indigenous foods of the Americas are celebrated in this bilingual collection of haiku, which also includes information about each food''s origins.

Acclaimed poet Pat Mora ( Borders , Chants , Communion , and other works) has joined with artist Francisco X. Mora to create a charming and elegant book whose rhymes and drawings will delight not only children aged 3 to 7, but adults (and animal-lovers) as well. Pat Mora''s whimsical poem, presented bilingually with a Spanish translation by Alba Nora Mart?nez, tells of birds, armadillos, and other creatures who join together in a kitchen one "orange night" to make merry beneath the desert moon. Exhilarated by the strains of a lizard mariachi band, these hungry creatures will gobble anything! Only the most delicious of hullabaloos can satisfy their appetites tonight. And only Francisco Mora''s captivating, colorful illustrations could catch them at play on the page.

In this adaptation of the folk song " The Twelve Day of Christmas," friends exchange such gifts as a pinata and "cuatro luminarias.".

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.

Long, long, long ago, Bella and her grandmother Mamá Alma admired their vegetable garden. They liked gardening together. They grew sunflowers and lilies too, and chatted with lizards and hummingbirds. They walked around the flowers and vegetables holding hands, something they had done frequently since Bella was a baby. As her grandmother aged, Bella helped her to walk. "Every year, I need your help more and more," said Mamá Alma. Sitting on their favorite rock, they remembered how Mamá Alma carried Bella to show her the sun and everything that grew in its powerful rays: trees, cacti, corn and flowers. The oldest and wisest woman in the village, she taught her granddaughter to sing, tell stories and weave. Mamá Alma is pleased that Bella has become the best healer in the village, the one everyone comes to for help with a sick bird or a stomach ache. Mamá Alma tells her granddaughter to remember their happy times together and to plan an annual "remembering day," a special time to think about her when she is gone. In this special bilingual picture book for children, acclaimed author Pat Mora creates an origin myth in which she imagines how the Mexican custom of remembering deceased loved ones--El día de los muertos or the Day of the Dead--came to be. With tender illustrations by Robert Casilla that depict Bella and Mamá Alma''s loving relationship, this book will encourage children to honor loved ones, whether by writing stories and poems or creating their own remembering place.