Many thanks to Día Dynamo Flo Trujillo, Youth Services Coordinator of the Farmington, NM Public Library and Deanne Dekle, Youth Services & Outreach Consultant at the New Mexico State Library! They’ve been spreading the word about Día’s 20th Anniversary for several months.
To see what they’ve been up to, visit the REFORMA de Nuevo México website, Facebook page and wonderful Pinterest page.
Put on your Día shoes and join the fun! (shoes made by Flo.)
Congratulations to the winners of the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature (CSMCL) 2016 Día Grants with an African American Focus.
Woodward Elementary School in Delaware, Ohio
The Día event theme is: “African American History through Books and Music.” The event will be held the week of April 25 through April 29, 2016.
Beardstown Houston Memorial Public Library in Beardstown, Illinois
The Día event theme is: “One Community, Many Stories.” The event will be held on April 12, 2016.
The two winning libraries will each be awarded $500 in selected multicultural children’s books
Celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women on March 8, International Women’s Day. Let’s continue to work together for improving the lives of women around the world.
Drawing on oral and lyrical traditions, Agua Santa: Holy Water book honors the grace and spirit of mothers, daughters, lovers, and goddesses. From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, the poems explore the intimate and sacred spaces of borderlands through many voices: a revolutionary, a domestic worker, a widow.
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Listen to Pat read “A River of Women” from the book. |
I recently finished reading EMMA by Jane Austen. Although I’d read her other novels, I don’t think I’d read this delight. The edition is a beautiful one with illustrations in an edition that belonged to my mother. The edition includes a reader’s guide that I read after completing the novel. It reminded me that Austen was born in 1775, she had little formal schooling, and that on the covers of her first books it said, “By a lady.” I smiled that the publisher stated that this edition had Austen’s portrait and the title “stamped in pure gold.”
I smiled from the first to last sentence of this book, at the sly way the author let the reader see what her lovely heroine Emma didn’t.
Timely ideas from our Día planning booklet:
