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September 8, 2018
Share a Story for Grandparents Day!
In 2018, September 9 is Grandparents Day. Why not share some bookjoy with your grandchildren?
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September 5, 2018
Mackin Community Interview: Bookjoy, Wordjoy
Thanks to all at Mackin for featuring this interview with Pat about Bookjoy, Wordjoy, her newest book: Celebrating Bookjoy and Wordjoy With Award-Winning Poet and Literacy Advocate Pat Mora.
Mackin: You are a well-known literacy advocate who is highly sought after for presentations. In your presentations and publications, you regularly promote “bookjoy.” In fact, your newest book of children’s poetry is even called Bookjoy, Wordjoy (Lee and Low Books, 2018). What is “bookjoy” and how does on...
September 1, 2018
Family Bookjoy: Growing a Nation of Readers
As a new school year begins, download and post to encourage parents to create a bookjoy family!
Pat Mora.
August 27, 2018
Water Rolls, Water Rises: World Water Week
Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube
Horn Book Magazine said of Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el...
August 22, 2018
Lee & Low Interview with Pat and Raul Colón
To coincide with the release of Bookjoy, Wordjoy this month, Lee & Low Books featured an interview with Pat and illustrator Raul Colón on their blog:
As a children’s book publisher, we know how powerful and influential words are, which is why we’re so excited to have announced the release of our new title, Bookjoy, Wordjoy this month! Whether we are collecting words, reading favorite books in the library, celebrating holidays, writing poems, sharing secrets, or singing a jazzy duet, words and...
July 24, 2018
July 26 is National Aunt and Uncle’s Day
My books A Birthday Basket for Tía and I Pledge Allegiance star my beloved aunt, whom we called, Lobo, who was like a second maternal grandmother. I’ve also written about her in my poetry collections for adults. All my special aunts and my uncle appear in my family memoir House of Houses.
Pat
A Birthday Basket for Tía
Cecilia has many happy memories of special times with her great-aunt, her Tía, baking cookies, having tea, or playing outside. So what can she give her on this truly special occ...
July 9, 2018
Introducing Pat’s Newest Book of Poetry for Children: Bookjoy, Wordjoy
On July 10, Lee and Low Books will publish Pat’s fourth children’s poetry collection, Bookjoy, Wordjoy, illustrated by Raul Colón.
In a starred review, Booklist called it “a marvelous collection of poems that extol the fun, adventure, and emotion that come with using one’s words…A joyous invitation to put pen (or paintbrush) to paper.” School Library Journal said “Mora’s love for language and wordplay is infectious; rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia all make their way into the poems and...
July 3, 2018
Happy 4th of July!
How blessed we are to live in this country. My daughter, Libby Martinez, a writer and lawyer, and I thoroughly enjoy writing children’s books together. We and our family have such warm memories of the aunt, Ignacia Delgado, who inspired I Pledge Allegiance. She called us her “lobitos,” her little wolves, and we all called her Lobo, our mother wolf. How she gave us treats and protected us and prayed for us. What an example!
My grandparents all came to this country from Mexico as did my dad whe...
June 18, 2018
Celebrate Nature in June, National Zoo and Aquarium Month
Libby Martinez, Pat’s daughter and co-author, wrote this poem when she worked for the Philadelphia Zoo, the oldest zoo in the country.
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June 4, 2018
Share Some Zing! With New Teachers
ZING! Seven Creativity Practices for Educators & Students is a book to share with new teacher graduates: help them cultivate their own creativity and the creative potential of all their students.
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