A reading proposition and an invitation

The American Libray Association is doing its part; ALA and librarians across the county will protest book burning with reading the Qur'an on 9/11
I want to do my part too: this Saturday I will go to my public library, I will look for the Qur'an, and I will read it. The act will be simple, even familiar, and yet just as powerful as a book burning. Reading is a fire in itself--I very well know it, I, who has grown by its light.
Will you come too?
I will be posting my photograph reading.
So can you.

Tomas Rivera 2008

Texas knows how to put together a book award celebration. Hurray for San Marcos and Austin!



We also heard that Juan Felipe Herrera was there last year to receive the award, and he kept people in stitches. How do you do it, Juan Felipe? I am sure one has to be born with that magic inside.

Visiting Carey School

At Carey School in San Mateo children weren’t frightened of the scary things I brought with me when I visited. They liked all things ghostly and they screamed for scary stories to read.
They are also illustrators of creepy books; here are only a few of many pictures of witches, werewolves, skeletons, and other sorts of deadly creatures that show just what daring artists these children are:

In my way back home I brought a letter with this picture of Mother Sky. Beautiful.