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A Bookjoy Moment, November 2020

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Our Newest Dynamo: Tracie D. Hall

Día Dynamos, creative and collaborative literacy advocates throughout the U.S., strive to expand Children’s Day, Book Day’s impact in innovative ways. The Dynamos understand that children matter and deserve to be celebrated, that literacy matters, and that linking all children and families to books and bookjoy strengthens communities and our country.

Tracie D. Hall

November 2020

Tracie D. Hall

Executive Director

American Library Association

We are honored to introduce our newest Dynamo, Tracie ...

Alive: November 2020

Illustration by Patrice Barton from I Pledge Allegiance

Are we all feeling very ALIVE on this Election Day, 2020? Our amazingly diverse, democratic country is facing a significant challenge. Don’t we feel especially ALIVE when we are investing our talents and energies in a greater good?

Bombarded as we also are during this COVID Pandemic by ads and sales and distractions, how do we create opportunities to reflect on our specific work in this world? Investing in our deepest work day by day, we wil...

New in paperback: Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube

Pat’s book Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube is now available in paperback! the book received many positive reviews and was a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor book for 2015.

"Evocative watercolor images and graceful short poems in Spanish and English celebrate water in all its forms and around the world…A lovely bilingual addition to the ‘sense of wonder’ shelf."
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"In this bilingual book, Mora uses her travels around the world to talk about water ...

A Writing Journey

My first book, Chants, was published in 1984 by Arte Público Press at the University of Houston. I was an administrator at the University of Texas at El Paso when my first copy arrived. Thanks to my mom, I’d grown up loving books, libraries, and reading in the desert city of El Paso. How happy it made me to hold that little book Chants with my name on it.

Since then, I’ve published seven books of poetry for adults and young adults and three books of nonfiction, one a family memoir, House of Hous...

The Scheherazade Project: #101 Nights

Have you heard about the Scheherazade Project’s #101Nights? These women artists are counting down to Election Day, using their arts to “playfully, fiercely, creatively, lovingly call attention to the dire situation in our kingdom, its violence toward women, people of color, the undocumented, Mother Earth, weaker nations unable to protect themselves against the rampage and raping of their resources and people.”

Pat was invited to participate and you can watch her episode below. Her poem “Let Us ...

August 2020: A Letter From Pat

Hi Girls and Boys,

This is a strange time in our country, isn’t it? Because of the pandemic, we wear masks even when we’re with our friends. We wash our hands more and practice social distancing. We don’t get too close to people except the family we live with.

Scientists are working to create a vaccine to protect all of us from the Covid virus. Once we have that vaccine, that OUCH, like the OUCH from our flu shot every year, will mean we can enjoy our usual life and run and play without masks.

I...

Desert Dance

Our June monsoon finally arrived in Santa Fe last night. Thunder, lightning, rain, rain, rain. A great show! The desert danced.

Pat

Illustration by Daniel Lechon from The Desert is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre

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Bookjoy! in the Summer

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