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Further Reading
Create a family reading ritual
Children enjoy a bedtime book or the newspaper comics in the morning.
Selected books by Pat Mora
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These poems celebrate the beauty of the Southwest as experienced by a Mexican American girl who lives there.
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In this poem in English and Spanish, lizards, armadillos, and other creatures of the night make merry beneath the desert moon, enjoying the strains of a mariachi band and gobbling lots of delicious food.
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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.
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With the help of his friends, Tio Sapo, the toad, defeats the overconfident Tio Venado, the deer, in a race.
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Rhyming text reveals the antics of an alphabet full of zoo animals as they enjoy a night of singing, dancing, feasting, and playing musical instruments while their keepers sleep. Includes pronunciation and translation guide to Spanish words that appear throughout the text.
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A Mexican American first-grader experiences the difficulties and pleasures of being different when she wears a tulip costume with all the colors of the rainbow for the school May Day parade.
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While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomás finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
Food
- Hollyer
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Explores what five children living in South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, France and India eat at mealtime with their families, how their families obtain and prepare food, what kinds of food may be eaten at celebrations, and what their favorite foods are. Includes recipes.
- Locricchio
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This collection of recipes from China, France, Italy and Mexico includes the cultural background for each recipe.
- Menzel
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Provides portraits of 30 families from 24 countries surrounded by a week's worth of food.
- Solheim
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Read poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical.
- Niehaus
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Introduces young readers to healthy eating and living using the USDA Food Pyramid as a guide.
Poetry
- Chaikin
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These haiku poems capture the wonders of nature.
- Donegan
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Introduces the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, explores the seven keys to writing haiku, and provides instructions for five haiku projects, including creating haiga, or illustrated haiku.
- Janeczko
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Offers a selection of short, funny poems for kids.
- Kennedy
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Celebrate poetry's ability to connect us like family with this anthology. Ten poems appear in their original languages as well.
- Kobayashi
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Haiku by the Japanese master, Issa, follows a family through the year.
- Paschen
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This is a collection of classic and contemporary poetry by adult writers such as Seamus Heaney and Rita Dove, and those who write specifically for children such as Jane Yolen and X.J. Kennedy. A CD of 52 poems read by the poets is included.
- Prelutsky
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These haiku poems describe a variety of animals.
- Prelutsky
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Includes poems about snow, bugs, birthdays and more, plus "poemstarts" — the beginning of poems and invitations to complete them.