Confetti: Poems for Children

by Pat Mora

Book Overview

The renowned poet Pat Mora celebrates the culture and landscape of the Southwest through the eyes of a Mexican American girl.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880000857
• ISBN13: 9781880000854
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Have a celebration with confetti!

This is a beautiful children's book. I used this book with one of the children I was tutoring for a graduate course and it worked well. It's a book of poems each with different themes and is a great way to add a little multicultural literature into a home or classroom. I really enjoy using this book.

Confetti-Little Mexican Pieces

A beautifully and brightly illustrated book. The artist's choice of swirls, patterns, and colors for each poem echoes the author's rhythm and verse, as well as, subject of the poem. As in her other books, Pat Mora uses life experiences and relationships that reflect Hispanic culture in her poems. Dancing Paper with it's pinata and cascarones, Abuelita's Lap with grandma in her rocking chair and Mexican Magician with it's empanadas, anise and marranitos. Mora also adds poems about nature in this book that reflect her native El Paso. A very warm book for anyone who wants to remember growing up with Mexican traditions.