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My Diary From Here to There / Mi diario de aquí hasta allá. Written by Amada Irma Pérez and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito. Written by Amada Irma Pérez and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Prietita and the Ghost Woman / Prietita y la Llorona. Written by Gloria Anzaldua and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Nonfiction and Fiction: Weather
Barrett, Judi. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Aladdin, 1982.
Gibbons, Gail. The Reasons for Seasons. Holiday House, 1996.
Singer, Marilyn. On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather. HarperCollins, 2000.
Poetry
Alarcón, Francisco X. Poemas para soñar juntos / Poems to Dream Together. Lee & Low Books, 2005.
Charles, Donald. El año de gato galano (Calico Cat's Year). Children's Press, 1985.
Lorca, Federico Garcia. Canciones y poemas para niños (Songs and Poems for Children). Conaculta, 1991.
Macías, Elva. Informe de la lenteja y otros poemas (The Lentil’s Report and Other Poems). Conaculta, 2000.
Mandaderos de la lluvia y otros poemas de América Latina (Messengers of Rain and Other Poems from Latin America). Tigrillo/Douglas & McIntyre, 2002.
Neruda, Pablo. Odes to Common Things. Bulfinch, 1994 (bilingual edition).
Orozco, José-Luis. Fiestas: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebration (Fiestas: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebration). Dutton Children's Books, 2002.
Paz Castillo, Maria Fernanda. De plumas, pieles y escamas: Rondas, rimas y adivinanzas (Feathers, Skin and Scales: Rounds, Rhymes and Riddles). Grupo Editorial Norma, 2003.
Plaza, José María (ed). Alibarú: La ronda de las estaciones (Alibarú: Seasons’ Lyrics). Gaviota, 1999.
Silverstein, Shel. Falling Up. HarperCollins, 1996.
Silverstein, Shel. Donde el camino se corta: Nuevos caminos para reírse (Where the Sidewalk Ends). Ediciones B, 2005.
Poets.org
The Teacher’s Guide.
The Teacher’s Corner.
Colorín Colorado. An interview with Francisco X. Alarcón
Loreta Torres is a fourth grade bilingual two-way (Spanish Immersion and Spanish as a Second Language) teacher at Fairmount Elementary School in San Francisco, CA. Fairmount views all members of the community as teachers and learners, offering many programs supporting learning for families as well as students. Loreta is also a Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) teacher consultant.
Christina Velasco is a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Fairmount Elementary School's immersion program. She is also a Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultant and taught a writing course for educators at UC Berkeley in the summer of 2004.
Please share your own ideas for how to use in the classroom the four books from The Magical Cycle of the Seasons series. We’ll be pleased to post your work on the web site for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org.
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