Highlighted Review

"With a playful text, this bilingual picture book celebrates a child’s connection with her desert home . . . The feelings are universal, the words precise and physical."—Booklist

"With the simplest of words, Mora invokes the grand powers of the desert . . . Mora’s bilingual text . . . communicates quiet joy and reverence."—Publishers Weekly

"A lovely extension of the metaphor expressed in the title, the text of this poem is a soothing recitation of the many ways in which the desert cares for the speaker: ‘I say feed me./She serves red prickly pear on a spiked cactus.’"—Cooperative Children’s Book Center

"Pat Mora’s poem in two languages is a lean and spare tribute to the sights, sounds, and feel of the desert."—Library Talk

"The Desert Is My Mother celebrates the desert settings of the U.S. Southwest as bountiful spaces that bring forth life and nurture body and soul."—Américas

"Like her Australian counterpart, children’s author Mem Fox, the Texan children’s author Pat Mora demonstrates the art of lean prose. . . . Here, like a loving mother, the desert, el desierto, feeds, heals, and caresses."—Southwest Children’s Review