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When moon blooms

As a child admires the moon, their mother imparts Mexican Indigenous wisdom of the moon's phases as they relate to our bodies and lives.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Salazar, Aida (Author)
Other Authors:	Benavides, Caribay M., 1989- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Rise x Penguin Workshop, 2024.
Series:	My living world
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > Juvenile fiction. Moon > Phases > Juvenile fiction. Parent and child > Juvenile fiction. Board books.
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Summary:	As a child admires the moon, their mother imparts Mexican Indigenous wisdom of the moon's phases as they relate to our bodies and lives.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Audience:	Ages 2-4.
ISBN:	9780593659182 059365918X
Author Notes:	Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the critically acclaimed middle-grade verse novels The Moon Within and Land of the Cranes . Her forthcoming books include the picture book anthology In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of Immigrants of Color (Orchard Books, 2021), the picture book biography Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter (Scholastic Press, 2022), the middle-grade novel A Seed in the Sun (Dial, 2022), and the middle-grade anthology My New Gift: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors (Candlewick, 2023). Aida is a founding member of LAS MUSAS-a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. Her story "By the Light of the Moon" was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland, California. Caribay Marquina Benavides is an artist from Merida, Venezuela, and is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a graphic designer and illustrator whose art is influenced by a nostalgia for the nature of her homeland. Caribay's work spans from commercial to editorial illustration, designing for clients all around the world.