Enrique R. Lamadrid

Although treated as outcasts, three superhuman friends, including Juan del Oso whose father was a bear, create an irrigation system for New Mexico's Mora Valley.

Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.

Ollie the owl learns that to become wise and successful he must stop skipping school to play with Raven and Crow and take reading lessons from his abuelita.

Ollie Owl and Uni Unicorn bravely face three guardians of the Dark Forest as they seek Jackie Jackalope, who ran away from Wisdom School after being bullied. Includes activities.

"In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E.A. 'Tony' Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times. Mares engages in dialogue with heroes and demons, anarchists and cardinals, and beggars and poets. He takes us through the convex mirror of history to the blood-stained...