"A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood -- that of the Maya K'iche'. Aqu̕ era el para̕so / Here Was Paradise is a selection of poems written by the great Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal. They evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place. Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers,...

In this poignant bilingual picture book, a boy remembers his first present, "a little train crossing / the mountain of my pillow / over a valley on my bed." There's even a girl who looks like his sister waving happily from the window! Years later, after his parents have gone far away in search of work and a better future, the boy rides in a real train to join his family. This one is loaded with hundreds of children traveling alone, just like him....

Children demonstrate how to make delicious salsa in this poem.

A little girl demonstrates how to make delicious guacamole in this poem.

A little girl moves her hand and imagines all the fantastic things she can find and touch.

"This is the fifth edition of Borderlands/ La Frontera. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic,...

A lighthearted story that follow the adventures of a brave young boy who, emboldened by tales of brave knights, decides to pursue the horrible dragon this is terrifying the villagers. But what he discovers is a surprisingly friendly dragon that is more interested in receiting poetry and making music than devouring fair damsels. Now the young boy will have to stop the local hero before he challenges the dragon to a fiery battle.