Yum! ¡Mmm! ¡Qué Rico! America’s Sproutings was featured in the Parents Press Bookshelf column called A Garden of Books for Aspiring Foodies.
Both Booklist and The Horn Book have given Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube good reviews. You can read them here.
Pat & her daughter Libby had a wonderful time at their Reading Rock Stars visit to Ortega School in Austin Texas as part of the Texas Book Festival. The art teacher had students create art projects connected to books such as Pablo’s Tree. Students also created self-portraits after studying the art in I Pledge Allegiance.
Pat and her daughter, co-author Libby Martinez, will be appearing at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX this weekend.
Saturday, October 25
10:30-11:00 a.m.
Children’s Read Me a Story Tent
13th & Colorado streets
Pat Mora and Libby will read selections from their book, I Pledge Allegiance.
12:00-1:00 p.m.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
The Sanctuary at First United Methodist Church
1201 Lavaca, enter from Lavaca St.
In children’s literature, representation of all races and ethnicities is vital so that any child can feel as if he or she has a voice. From Mexico to New York, these stories reach across boundaries to draw children into the world of reading. Join Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Pat Mora, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Tim Tingle and Jacqueline Woodson as they talk about why diversity is important in literature.
Last weekend, I returned to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) for its Centennial. When I was an undergraduate there, my mom drove me to the campus for my classes. Sounds so odd today. I am a UTEP graduate and subsequently taught there part-time, and eventually became an administrator there. During my administrator days, I received a letter from a young boy from Houston. Joseph and I became friends, and he’s now a UTEP professor. Sweet story. Dr. Joseph Rodríguez, my amigo who knows my work better than I do, generously created a Centennial session at which we had a conversation with students. We all need friends who believe in us. I am deeply grateful for Joseph’s steady friendship.
REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, has announced that the Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center, IA) is the winner of the
It is the third year that with a special donation from Kay and Dan Moore, three Mora Honor Winners were named; Brownsville Independent School District (Texas), Farmington Public Library (New Mexico), and Puyallup Public Library (Washington).
The Sioux Center Public Library greeted children and their families with a traditional game of Loteria where children worked together in mixed-culture groups. Demonstrating the joy of reading in any language, families enjoyed both in English and in Spanish a reading of Wild About Books! = ¡Que locura por la lectura!. To continue the celebration before moving forward with fun-filled activities, an indoor picnic with colorful tablecloths awaited the children with snacks to munch on. A craft area was organized where the children demonstrated their creativity while creating flowers out of tissue paper and decorated flags from Mexico and countries from around the world. Children were encouraged to form a collaborative book where they illustrated a page from a popular book. To include the older grades, children in 3rd grade and higher participated in a scavenger hunt that sent them out on a quest throughout the library. An unexpected 200 people were in attendance during Sioux Center Public Library’s Día celebration.
Read the full press release:
English
Spanish
REFORMA will present the award during the Midwinter meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) next January in Chicago, IL.
