Educator Resources

Downloads

• English Teaching Guide Abrams Books
• Spanish Teaching Guide Abrams Books
• Study Guide by Sharon O’Neal, Ph.D.
• Extended Glossary
• Extended Bibliography

Additional Resources

• Using Picture Books in the Classroom for All Ages, UCLA Latin American Literature Series for Educators with Gloria Amescua
• Picture Books are for Grownups, Too! Interview with Gloria Amescua.
• Brenner, Anita, retold from Doña Luz Jiménez. The Boy Who Could Do Anything and Other Mexican Folk Tales. Hamden, Connecticut: Linnet Book, 1992.
• Nahuatl Borrowings in Mexican Spanish Vocabulary with English translations
• “A Living Link” news article here
• Additional Activity: People Perfect Picture Book Friday

About the Illustration

Watch Duncan Tonatiuh’s videos about his inspiration and illustration processes for Child of the Flower-song People:

• Part 1 here
• Part 2 here

Paintings of Luz Rivera

Image permission granted by Jesús (Xezus) Villanueva, Doña Luz’s grandson.

More Luz Jiménez Images

Modern Art Work

Luz Jiménez continues to inspire artists, historians and writers in the 21^st century. Contemporary artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren weavings in “conversation with the history of Nahua- Mexican artist, model, Nauhuatl language educator, storyteller and weaver Julia “Luz” Jiménez. Exhibit here.

In the silence Between Mother Tounges (permission to use Kira Dominguez Hultgren)