Celebra Cinco De Mayo Con Un Jarabe Tapatio / Celebrate Cinco De Mayo With the Mexican Hat Dance (Cuentos Para Celebrar) (Cuentos Para Celebrar / Stories to Celebrate) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Alma Flor Ada [Camagüey,Cuba] Professor EmeritaUniversity of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace  promoting a pedagogy oriented to personalrealization and social justice. A Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University, hernumerous children's books have received prestigious awards; among many:Christopher Medal (The Gold Coin),Pura Belpré (Under the Royal Palms),Once Upon a World (Gathering the Sun),Parents' Choice Honor (Dear Peter Rabbit), NCSS and CBC Notable Book (My Name is María Isabel), InternationalLatino Book Award (Love, Amalia; DancingHome; and Yes! We Are Latinos)and the Virginia Hamilton Award (2012) for her body of work. In 2014 theMexican Government granted her the prestigious OHTLI Award for services to theMexican communities abroad. In 2018 she received the Life-Long AchievementAward from the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE). Herprofessional books include: A MagicalEncounter: Latino Children's Literature in the Classroom and, co-authoredwith F. Isabel Campoy: Authors in theClassroom: A Transformative Education Process and Está linda la mar. Para entender la poesía y usarla en el aula. (Tounderstand poetry and share it in the classroom) and the poetry program Alegría. Poesía cada día ( Joy. Poetryevery day) published by National Geographic/Cengage.
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