Confetti: Poems for Children

by Pat Mora, Enrique O. Sanchez

Overview

In this joyful and spirited collection, award-winning poet Pat Mora and fine artist Enrique 0. Sanchez celebrate the vivid landscape of the Southwest and the delightful rapport that children share with the natural world. Through language resounding with both English and Spanish, Confetti is also an anthem to the power of a child's imagination and pride:

I say yo soy libre, I am free, free, free, free as confetti.

Long-awaited by Ms. Mora's many fans, Confetti is a treasury to be shared with children everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781880000854
Publisher:	Lee & Low Books, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2006
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	58,084
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

About the Author

Pat Mora, poet and author, has written more than thirty children's books. She is a popular national speaker and the founder of the family literacy initiative El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), sponsored by ALA. Mora’s books have won numerous awards and honors, and she is a recipient of the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award and presented the ALA’s 2016 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture. Mora lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her website is patmora.com.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 1-3-Narrative poems in free verse capture the rhythms and uniqueness of the Southwest and its culture as seen through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. Many Spanish words are interwoven into the verses and translated in a glossary at the book's end. The beauty of the natural world is captured in Sanchez's acrylic illustrations. Done in hot colors reflecting the sun, their swirling, dreamlike patterns suggest the openness and vastness of the land and the freedom of its inhabitants. A welcome addition.-Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY

School Library Journal

Confetti ( Oct. 1996; 32 pp.; 1-880000-25-3): The best of these poems that mix English and Spanish ("I say yo soy libre") warmly evokes familiar touchstones of Mexican-American life. There's "Abuelita's yellowlap," a "dance-dancing panadero," who sings the dough to rise, and a woodcarver who "paints open the eyes" of animals "found asleep/in a piece of wood." Most of the poems by Mora (Uno, Dos, Tres, p. 139, etc.) are more ordinary—"Sun song. Sun song. Sun song." The soft, dreamy illustrations, with Southwestern motifs, are contrasted with borders of sharp colors, while small geometric pieces of confetti are "scattered" throughout.

Kirkus Reviews