Francisco X. Alarcon is an award-winning poet and educator. His acclaimed first book of poetry for children, Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems, received the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal Award and a Pura Belpre Honor Award from the American Library Association. Considered a leader in the Chicano literary movement, Alarcon was inspired to write poetry by the songs his grandmother used to sing. All of his book present the poems in both Spanish and English. He has recently published his first book of poems for adults, From the Other Side of Night/Del Otro Lado de La Noche: New and Selected Poems. Alarcon directs the Spanish for Native Speakers Program at the University of California, Davis.

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Animal Poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu (Hardcover)

By Francisco X. Alarcon, Maya Christina Gonzalez

ISBN-13: 9780892392254
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Children's Book Press (CA), 7/2008

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Poems to Dream Together/Poemas para soñar juntos (Paperback)

By Francisco X. Alarcón, Paula Barragán

$8.95

ISBN-13: 9781600606571
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Published: Lee & Low Books, 4/2011

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From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Francisco X. Alarcon

$19.95

ISBN-13: 9780816521807
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Published: University of Arizona Press, 2/2002

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Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems (Hardcover)

By Francisco X. Alarcon, Maya Christina Gonzalez, Ill

ISBN-13: 9780892391684
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Children's Book Press (CA), 8/2001

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Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems: Los Angeles Andan Bicicletas (Hardcover)

By Francisco X. Alarcon, Maya Christina Gonzalez

ISBN-13: 9780892391608
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Children's Book Press, 7/1999

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