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Pat Mora
What is your connection to Ohio?
I lived in Cincinnati for seven of the years between 1989 and 1998. I was born in El Paso, Texas, and came to Ohio because my husband teaches at the University of Cincinnati.
What inspired you to become an author or illustrator?
I am a writer because I am a reader. Often when a person loves to read, she sometimes thinks: I'd like to write a book too.
What advice do you have for a young author or illustrator?
Reading plenty of books is helpful to writers and illustrators of all ages. It's also helpful to notice the world around you. Be a good observer and a good listener. What are the kinds of trees in your neighborhood? What are your great-grandparents' names and where were they born?
What do you like to do for fun?
I like to laugh and visit with my family, and to cook, garden, travel, read and visit museums.
Some of your most popular books are:
- Love to mamá : a tribute to mothers (2001)
- The rainbow tulip (1999)
- This big sky (1998)
- House of houses (1997)
- Tomás and the library lady (1997)
- Confetti : poems for children (1996)
- Uno, dos, tres = One, two, three (1996)
- A birthday basket for Tía (1992)
- The desert is my mother = El desierto es mi madre (1994)
- Listen to the desert = Oye al desierto (1994)
- Pablo's tree (1994)
- Nepantla : essays from the land in the middle (1993)
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