open mics are too long…

but not from sadness: I just felt so incredibly happy that this queer Latinx adventure will get to be read by other kids

author of How to Bird

What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her

The Giving Flower: The Story of the Poinsettia Patricia Maclachlan open mics are too long…A lyrical picture book about the Poinsettia flower and the holiday traditions it has inspired First, the flower grew wilda yellow blossom with bracts that turn brilliant red in winter. The ancient Nahuas cultivated it; then it inspired Mexico's most famous Christmas legend. After the flower caught the eye of Mexico's first US ambassador, it became known as the Poinsettia. Yet it has many more names and traditionsand even more colors! From Pura Belpre