Cinco de Mayo

What Felled You Is Important (M.A. Reilly, Winner, SD, 2011)

Cinco de Mayo

 - Naomi Shihab Nye

If this is your birthday and you are dead,
do we stay silent as the sheet
you died under? No. You always talked.
Here’s a thick white candle whispering.
Pour birdseed into feeders.
Speak up, speak up.

Tell me where they go, my friend said,
in the same pain. I touched her shoulder.
Here, right here. You’re closer than
you ever were — takes a while to know that.
Every scrap of DNA, he’s listening.
There’s a way not to be broken
that takes brokenness to find it.

Children's Books about Cinco de Mayo and Mexico

Cinco De Mayo

Ada, Alma F. & F. Isabel Campoy. (2006). Celebra Cinco De Mayo Con Un Jarabe Tapatio / Celebrate Cinco De Mayo With the Mexican Hat Dance. Madrid, Spain: Alfaguara Infantil.

Ada, Alma F. & F. Isabel Campoy. (2006). Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the Mexican Hat Dance. Madrid, Spain: Alfaguara Infantil.

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. (2010). Cinco de Mayo: Celebrating the Traditions of Mexico. New York: Holiday House.

MacMillan, Dianne. (2008). Mexican Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo. Enslow Elementary.

Orozco, Jose-Luis. (2002). Fiestas. Illustrated by Elisa Kleven. New York: Dutton.

Urrutia, Maria Cristina. (2008). Cinco de Mayo: Yesterday and Today. Illustrated by Rebecca Orozco. Toronto, ON: Groundwood Books.

Mexico

Alarcón, Francisco X. (2005). From the Bellybutton of the Moon: And Other Summer Poems / Del Ombligo de la Luna: Y Otros Poemas de Verano. Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. New York: Lee & Low Books.

Alarcón, Francisco X. (2005).  Iguanas in the Snow: And Other Winter Poems / Iguanas en la Nieve: Y Otros Poemas de Invierno. Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. New York: Lee & Low Books.

Alarcón, Francisco X. (2005).  Angels Ride Bikes: And Other Fall Poems / Los Angeles Andan en Bicicleta: Y Otros Poemas de Otoño. Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. New York: Lee & Low Books.

Ancona, George. (1994).  El piñatero/ The Piñata Maker. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Company.

Anaya, Rudolfo. (2004).  The Santero's Miracle: A Bilingual Story. Illustrated by Amy Córdova. Translated by Enrique R. Lamadrid. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Andrews-Goebel, Nancy. (2002). The Pot that Juan Built. Illustrated by David Diaz. New York: Lee & Low Books.

Astorga, Amalia and Gary Paul Nabhan. (2001). Efraín of the Sonoran Desert: A Lizard's Life Among the Seri Indians. Illustrated by Janet K. Miller. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Blanco, Alberto. (1998). Angel's Kite / La estrella de Ángel. Illustrated by Rodolfo Morales. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press.

Brown, Monica. (2010). Chavela and the Magic Bubble. Illustrated by Magaly Morales. New York: Clarion.

Czernecki, Stefan. (2013). Huevos Rancheros. Vancouver, BC: Tradewind Books.
Corpi, Lucha. (2002). Where Fireflies Dance/Ahi, donde bailan las luciernagas. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press.

Endredy, James. (2003). The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer: A Huichol Indian Story. Illustrated by María Hernández de la Cruz and Casimiro de la Cruz López. Bear Cub Books.

Fine, Edith Hope. (1999). Under the Lemon Moon. Illustrated by Rene King Moreno. . New York: Lee & Low Books.

Fine, Edith Hope. (1999). Bajo la Luna de Limon. Illustrated by Rene King Moreno. . New York: Lee & Low Books.

Garza, Xavier. (2007). Lucha Libre: The Man in the Silver Mask. Illustrated by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Geeslin, Campbell. (2011). Elena’s Serenade. Illustrated by Ana Juan. New York: Atheneum.

Gollub, Matthew. (1997). Los Veinticinco Gatos Mixtecos. Illustrated by, Leovigildo Martinez. Translated by Martin Luis Guzman. Tortuga Press.

Herrera, Juan Felipe.  (2001). Calling the Doves/El Canto de las Palomas. Illustrated by Elly Simmons. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Johnston, Tony. (2008). P is for Pinata: A Mexican Alphabet. Illustrated by John Parra. Grand Rapids, MI: Sleeping Bear Press.

Johnston, Tony. (1999). My Mexico / México Mío. New York: Puffin.

Marcos, Subcomandante. (2001). Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution. Illustrated by Domitilia Domínguez and Antonio Ramirez. Translated by David Romo. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Marcos, Subcomandante. (1999). The Story of Colors / La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas. Illustrated by Domitilia Domínguez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Marín, Guadalupe Rivera. (2009). My Papa Diego and Me/Mi papa Diego y yo: Memories of My Father and His Art/Recuerdos de mi padre y su arte. Artwork by Diego Rivera. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

McCalister, Caroline. (2007). HOLY MOLÉ!: A Folktale from Mexico.  Illustrated by Stefan Czernecki. Atlanta, GA: August House.

Morales, Yuyi. 2003. Just a Minute! A Trickster Tale and Counting Book. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle.

Nye, Naomi Shihab (Compiler). (1998). The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico with Paintings by Mexican Artists. New York: Aladdin.

 Pérez, Amada Irma. 2002. My Diary from Here to There/Mi Diaro De Aqui Hasta Alla. Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press.

Smith, Emilie. (2009). Viva Zapata!   Illustrated by Stefan Czernecki. Vancouver, BC: Tradewind Books.

Stavans, Ilan. (2013). Golemito. Illustrated by and Teresa Villegas. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books.

Tonatiuh, Duncan. (2011). Diego Rivera: His World and Ours. Harry N. Abrams.

Winter, Jeanette. (2006). Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc.

Winter, Jeanette. (1996). Josephine. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc.

Winter, Jonah. (2002). Frida. Illustrated by Ana Juan. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.

Winter, Jonah. (1994). Diego. Illustrated by Jeanette Winter. New York: Dragonfly Books.