The Night the Moon Fell: A Maya Myth
by Pat Mora
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When a gust from her grandfather's blowgun causes Luna to tumble from the sky and fall into the ocean, the little fishes help her rise once again, in an updated retelling of a traditional Mopan Maya myth from Belize.Tags
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An adaptation of a Mayan myth about how the moon falls into the ocean one night. The moon, Luna, makes friends with the fish and creatures of the sea, but she longs for her home in the sky. Her new friends in the sea help put her back together and after raising her back up to the sky, they join her there. Some Spanish words are incorporated throughout the text. The illustrations feature interesting, colorful abstract art.
This Maya Myth book is about a moon called luna who falls down from the sky because of a whoosh from a blowgun. She falls into the deep sea and in order to get back into one piece and back into the sky she needs help from the tiny fish in the sea. The fish help her get back together and into the sky. The fish and moon are now friends in the sky.
Luna, the moon, breaks into pieces and finds herself at the bottom of the ocean! She is so sad and alone, but her new fish friends use their scales to stick her back together and return to the sky where she belongs.
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Pat Mora is a bilingual author with a special focus on children's literature. Among her awards are Honorary Doctorates from North Carolina State University and SUNY Buffalo, Honorary Membership in the American Library Association, Life-Time Membership in USBBY, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship to write in Umbria, Italy, and a Distinguished Alumni show more Award from the University of Texas at El Paso. She was a recipient and judge of a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a recipient and advisor of the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowships. Her children's books include: Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube. With her daughter, Libby Martinez, Pat also recently wrote I Pledge Allegiance and Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo!. A literacy advocate, Pat founded Children's Day, Book Day, El día de los niños, El día de los libros often known as Día. The year-long commitment promotes creatively linking all children and families to books, and establishing annual April Children's Day, Book Day celebrations across the country. April 2016 will be Día's 20th Anniversary. Pat's Book Fiesta captures the Día spirit. A former teacher, university administrator, museum director, and consultant, Pat is a popular national speaker who promotes creativity, inclusivity and bookjoy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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