Tomatoes laugh, chiles explode, and tortillas applaud the sun in this playful and moving collection of twenty English and Spanish poems written in honor of the wonders of life and nature.
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. The author of eight collections of poetry, Alarcon lives and teaches in Davis, California.
Maya Christina Gonzalez is a painter and graphic artist. Her artwork for her first award-winning collaboration with Francisco X. Alarcon, Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems, has been praised by reviewers as "upbeat," "innovative," and "so bountiful it feels as if it's spilling off the pages." Gonzalez lives and frolics in San Francisco, California.