Former First Lady Laura Bush Announces the Blockbuster Author Line-Up for the 2009 Texas Book Festival Sep 4, 2009
Past recipients include Cormac McCarthy, Sandra Cisneros, and Horton Foote, among others. Others topping the list of children's authors are Jon Scieszka, Rosemary Wells, Libba Bray, and Judy Schachner. (PR Newswire)
SAT results due Tuesday Aug 25, 2009
Sandra Cisneros, perhaps the best known Latina. author in the United States, writes poems and stories. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Homework proves a better summer ritual than you think Aug 7, 2009
Her younger girl, who ll be a freshman, must read The Hobbit and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. But the only thing I have actually seen them reading this summer is People magazine, said Gieseke, joking that she hopes for a change in the fall curriculum which focuses more on Jon and Kate, Michael Jackson and celebrity fashions. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Time for the great summer ritual homework Jul 28, 2009
Her younger girl, who'll be a freshman, must read "The Hobbit" and "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. But the "only thing I have actually seen them reading this summer is People magazine," said Gieseke, joking that she hopes for "a change in the fall curriculum which focuses more on Jon and Kate, Michael Jackson and celebrity fashions. My kids could ace that test.". (MSNBC -- Health)
Glimmer Train Inspiration and Dis... May 21, 2009
"Many people touch us." (Sandra Cisneros). "We use what life gives us." (Tim O'Brien). (Suite101.com)
One million views and counting May 19, 2009
This cross-generational celebration will feature high-profile speakers such as author Sandra Cisneros, fashion designer Carmen Marc Valvo, former mayor of San Antonio Henry G. Cisneros, sports commentator Jorge Ramos, along with entertainment from Grammy Award winners David Lee Garza and Los Lobos. Festival activities for attendees will include a marketplace; forums addressing health, wellness and financial security topics; free health screenings; a job fair; and a banner weekend of musical... (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Teacher can't turn off the teaching (11) Apr 2, 2009
It was a prop to go with the short story, Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, a Chicana from Chicago who has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. The challenge for Carey s students: Identify the 13 similes (sentences that make a comparison by using the word like or as ) in the story by Cisneros. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
