Books with author Francisco X. Mora

The Fox in the Moon: Based On A Peruvian Folk Tale is for Ages 4-8. The Fox in the Moon: Based On A Peruvian Folk Tale The Fox in the Moon: Based On A Peruvian Folk Tale was published by Hampton-Brown Company Incorporated. Subjects of The Fox in the Moon: Based On A Peruvian Folk Tale include Children: Grades 3-4, Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, and Science & Technology - Earth Sciences.

Acclaimed poet and children’s writer Pat Mora has joined with artist Francisco X. Mora to create a charming and elegant book whose rhymes and drawings will delight not only children aged 3 to 7, but adults (and animal-lovers) as well. Pat Mora’s whimsical poem, presented bilingually with a Spanish translation by Alba Nora Martínez, tells of birds, armadillos, and other creatures who join together in a kitchen one “orange night” to make merry beneath the desert moon. Exhilarated by the strains of a lizard mariachi band, these hungry creatures will gobble anything! Only the most delicious of hullabaloos can satisfy their appetites tonight. And only Francisco X. Mora’s captivating, colorful illustrations could catch them at play on the page. Pat Mora’s other bilingual books for children include Tomás and the Library Lady, Confetti, The Desert Is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre (winner of a 1995 Skipping Stones Award) and, with Charles Ramírez Berg, The Gift of the Poinsettia/El regalo de la flor de Nochebuena. Her first book with illustrator Francisco X. Mora was Listen to the Desert/Oye al desierto. Francisco’s other books include Juan Tuza and the Magic Pouch, La Mariposa Bailarina/The Ballerina Butterfly, The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb: A Mexican Fable, and The Legend of the Two Moons.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. "A bilingual account of some of the animals and sounds commonly found in the Southwestern desert. Each double-page spread depicts a vast expanse of light blue sky with four lines of text--two in English and two in Spanish--on the verso, and a different creature or scene on the recto. . . . The translations are appropriate and provide an excellent opportunity to compare the sounds in the two languages. . . . The illustrations evoke Native American art in shapes and colors, and the bottoms of the pages are adorned with geometric designs. This book is a good choice for reading aloud; young audiences will enjoy the predictable, repetitive text, and its bilingual format enhances its appeal in a variety of multicultural settings."--School Library Journal

An easy life is not always a good life. In a world where food is religion, a group of furry little creatures called Rumplings struggle to maintain the values of their creed when faced with a greedy and domineering religious organisation. Rocket, a humble and devout Rumpling, despairs when Snifer and the Church of Food lure Rumplings away from their work with offers of unlimited food and free housing. Rocket has a bad feeling about this. How can he get the other Rumplings to see sense? Is it already too late for them?