Contributors:

ENRIQUE ALVARADO
DIANA BARRIOS
RENE BUTIGAN
HELEN CAMPOS
MARISELA CAMPOS
ANTHONY DAVILA
ROGER DIAZ
MARIA ESCALANTE
JULIO ESCAMILLA
ADOLFO FLORES
GRACIE GONZALES
BRENDA GUAJARDO
FERNANDO GUAJARDO
PATRICIA HERRERA
JERRY MANZANARES

MARIA MARTINEZ
VANGIE MARTINEZ
CLAUDIA MORENO
VERONICA OCHOA
MARK REYES
JOSUE REYNA
JUAN JAIME RICO
MARIA RIVERA
PATRICIA RUEDA
GABRIELA TREVINO
DEBBIE VILLALOBOS

 

Front Coyer: Art work by Maria Rivera
Back Cover: Art work by Anthony Dávila

These cuentos, written by Sixth grade bilingual students, ages from 11 to 17, from Buena Vista Elementary School, Southside Independent School District, show artistic and poetic tapestries of culture, language and heritage.

These children demonstrate motivation, intelligence and a vibrancy that make the classroom a unique loom for weaving images of laughter, pain and promise into intricate patterns that will certainly remain in our hearts forever. Furthermore, these cuentos tap the children's creative energies before they are buried under the rigors of classroom rote, repetition, and redundancy.

So instead we choose to embrace el cariño and the breath of these cuentos.

I wish to thank the following people for their love and support in this project:

Ms. Lydia Mendez, whose guided strength and inspiration to my students and myself is and always will be cherished in our hearts. I also want to mention Mr. Joe Chmielewski, whose invaluable computer skill and editorial help made this project a success.

And thanks to M&A Editions/Huehuetitlan for publishing the material appearing in this special children's issue.

-Margarita Elizarde
6th grade Bilingual Teacher
Buena Vista Elementary School
Southside Independent School District.

 

Contents-Contenido

The Snake That Fel1 On The Lady
El Gallo Que Quería A Una Gallina,
How A Teenager's Life Becomes
The Day Something Happened
Journal
Cuentos Que Vibran Bajo La Luna
El Carro De Mi Tío
Thirteen Kids
Adivinanzas
Stranger In The Sky
How Kids Feel About Sexual Abuse
Cuentos Que Vibran Bajo La Luna
A Dream I Wish Will Come True
The Worm
Unicorn
A Story Of My Family
La Vez
Adivinanza
Cuento

The Loneliest Day Of My Life
Adivinanza
El Pájaro Y La Pájara
Poems
La Llorona
El Cerro De Los Remedios
Mi Historia Triste
Poems
El Diablo
The Boy That Wanted To Reach...
The Day I Felt The Freedom
A Story About Me And My Family
Graciela La Rancherita
Madre Superiora
The Man Dressed In Black
Animales Durmientes
The Gir1 From Mexico
A Streak Of Lightning Danced...
When Me And My Sister...