Another Test Post

Happy Valentine's Day to each of you who visits my blog! In Spanish, this day has various names. My favorite is El día del amor y de la amistad because the name celebrates both love and friendship.

Love is all around ... all year long. My book for teens, Dizzy in Your Eyes, is a collection of 50 poems about love. SLJ said "Teachers in need of a fresh new avenue for teaching poetic form, lovers of language, and teens in search of a broader definition of love will find it here.”

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Kirkus said "The poet’s voice is multifaceted: tender, humorous and joyful but also profound  … "
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Test Post #1

Happy Valentine's Day to each of you who visits my blog! In Spanish, this day has various names. My favorite is El día del amor y de la amistad because the name celebrates both love and friendship.

30 Día Reflections for Día’s 15th Anniversary, April 2011

30 Día Reflections for Día’s 15th Anniversary, April 2011

El día de los niños / El día de los libros, Children’s Day/Book Day

by Pat Mora

Day by day, día por día, growing Día

I invite each of us to read the reflection and then to ponder: how am I doing this in my own life?

Let’s welcome ideas for expanding and deepening Día’s work.

Let’s see ourselves as part of a National Día Community connected by our commitment to the wonder and potential of each child and to the pleasure and power of literacy.

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Dia Nugget test

15 Día Nuggets: #6 What Every Día Advocate Needs to Know and #8 Children's Books About Sharing Bookjoy


Today, we're posting two more Día Nuggets! All available Nuggets are on my site, and you can also download a Nugget packet.

If you visit this blog or my web site, you know that April 2011, we’re celebrating Día’s 15th Anniversary. My web team and I were so pleased at comments about our first Díapalooza last April that we’re having a second Díapalooza in 2011. To assist those of you planning Día celebrations If you visit this blog or my web site, you know that April 2011, we’re celebrating Día’s 15th Anniversary. My web team and I were so pleased at comments about our first Díapalooza last April that we’re having a second Díapalooza in 2011. To assist those of you planning Día celebrations

If you visit this blog or my web site, you know that April 2011, we’re celebrating Día’s 15th Anniversary. My web team and I were so pleased at comments about our first Díapalooza last April that we’re having a second Díapalooza in 2011. To assist those of you planning Día celebrations If you visit this blog or my web site, you know that April 2011, we’re celebrating Día’s 15th Anniversary. My web team and I were so pleased at comments about our first Díapalooza last April that we’re having a second Díapalooza in 2011. To assist those of you planning Día celebrations