New Releases by Pat Mora

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

Stella loves her family and her Mexican heritage, but she doesn''t always like being different from the other kids at school. Now her class is going to dance around the Maypole at the school''s May parade, and Stella wants her tulip costume to be special, even if she won''t look like the other girls at school. Sometimes being different can be exciting. This touching story that celebrates diversity is based on author Pat Mora''s mother''s childhood and is brought to life by Elizabeth Sayles''s evocative paintings. Illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles.

Con la ayuda de sus amigos, tío Much, el sapo, vence a tío Keej, el venado, que es demasiado confiado en sí mismo, en una carrera.

In this anthology, Mora has gathered the best of her poems with young-adult readers in mind, and has added to them several new poems published here for the first time ... Much like a blossoming young man or woman, My Own True Name has been fifteen years in the making. --Arte Público Press.

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

Tomás es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, él y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y difíciles días en el campo, durante la temporada de la cosecha de frutas y verduras. Por las noches, a veces, se reúnen a escuchar los maravillosos cuentes de papá grande, el abuelo de Tomás. Con el tiempo, Tomás se aprende todos los cuentos de memoria. Hay muchos otros cuentos en la biblioteca – le dice papá grande. Y al día siguiente, Tomás conoce a la señora de la biblioteca, quien le abre las puertas a un nuevo mundo. 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.

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".

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Poems celebrating the beauty of the Southwest as experienced by a Mexican American girl who lives there.

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