This Big Sky

This is a book full of poems that all depict some type of southwest picture. The colors and images throughout the book grab the readers attention. The poems are all based around themes in the Southwest and the desert. The poems have both English and Spanish words in them which make them appealing to many different types of students.

The following website is the authors website where there are more books by Pat Mora, some even include activities for the classroom:

http://www.patmora.com/ ( )