2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Bookjoy, Wordjoy: Alegría en los Libros

Authors

  • Pat Mora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n3.3

Abstract

On September 29, 2014, I received a special email. It was from friendly Hannah Ehrlich at Lee & Low Books who forwarded a lovely and affirming message from [2016 Arbuthnot Committee Chair] Julie Corsaro. I was speechless and so grateful at what Julie had written.

Author Biography

Pat Mora

Author and literacy advocate Pat Mora has written more than three dozen books for young people that represent the Mexican American experience. She is the founder of El día de los niños/ El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), or “Día.” She delivered the 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture April 15, 2016, at Santa Barbara City College’s Garvin Theatre. Her lecture coincided with the 20th anniversary of Día.

References

Pat Mora, “Words Free As Confetti,” Confetti: Poems for Children (New York: Lee & Low, 1996).

Sylvia Puentes de Oyenard, Paraflor: Antologia (Santiago, Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello, 1988), 5.

Kids Count Data Center, Annie E. Casey Foundation, July 2015, http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/103-child-population-by-race?loc=1&loct=1#detailed/1/any/false/869,36,868,867,133/68,69,67,12,70,66,71,72/423,424.

Pat Mora, “Twenty Ways of Looking at a Child” (unpublished poem, March 2016), www.patmora.com.

Lyndsey Layton, “Majority of U.S. Public School Students are in Poverty,” Washington Post, January 16, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/majority-of-us-public-school-students-are-in-poverty/2015/01/15/df7171d0-9ce9-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html.

Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Publishing Statistics on Children’s Books about People of Color and First/Native Nations and by People of Color and First/Native Nations Authors and Illustrators,” accessed March 3, 2016, http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp.

Pat Mora, Zing: Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2010), 114.

Bookjoy, Wordjoy by Pat Mora, to be published by Lee & Low, New York. Used with permission.

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Published

2016-09-14

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2016): Fall

Section

Features

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