Mora, Pat

With the help of his friends, Much, the toad, defeats the overconfident Keej, the deer, in a race.

Retells Aesop's fable of the thirsty crow who is able to get a drink by dropping pebbles into the water until the level is high enough for him to reach it with his beak.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet, learned in many subjects, who became a nun later in life.

Crow searches for water in this Aesop fable.

Monica, who wants to be a baker like her grandmother, finds the doll hidden in the bread on the feast for the Three Kings and thus gets to bake cookies for the next fiesta.

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.

Bilingual text in English and Spanish describes a family as they sit down to a table filled with good food.

A collection of forty-nine odes by noted children's author and poet Pat Mora, that represents many of the things she loves such as chocolate, books, church bells, deities, spirits, and literary figures.

Do?a 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.