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Biography Īlma Flor Ada was born in Camagüey, Cuba on January 3, 1938, to Modesto Ada Rey and Alma Lafuente. A Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, she is recognized for her work promoting bilingual and multicultural education in the United States.

My Name is María Isabel, Gathering the Sun, Yes! We are Latinos, A Magical Encounter, Authors in the ClassroomĪlma Flor Ada (born January 3, 1938) is a Cuban-American author of children's books, poetry, and novels. My grat­i­tude to Suni and Simón, for allow­ing this homage to César Chávez and all campesinos to be as inspir­ing as his exam­ple and their lives.Poetry, children's literature, adult novels, memoirs, pedagogy, educational materialsĬritical pedagogy, transformative education Suni's unique voice and her mas­ter­ful com­po­si­tions have allowed the words in this book to tran­scend their birth as poems becom­ing unfor­get­table songs. It has given me unsur­pass­able joy to sign this book for golden anniver­saries of grand­par­ents and for birth­day gifts, for quinceañeras, new­born babies and babies yet to be born, real­iz­ing that in each case the book is a sym­bol of the strength, the resilience, the deter­mi­na­tion, the dig­nity and the pro­found love of fam­ily of those who work in the fields and whose labor allows us all to live. Simón Silva, who knew inti­mately the life in the fields dur­ing his child­hood and has drawn from the her­itage of the great Mex­i­can mural­ists pro­vided strong and mag­nif­i­cent illus­tra­tions that have made this book the true homage to the farm work­ers lives and strug­gles that I dreamt to create.

The poems of Gath­er­ing the Sun were born out of these enrich­ing expe­ri­ences. I have described my work with farm work­ing par­ents, and the learn­ing I derived from it, in my mem­oirs, Vivir en dos idiomas. I have described the aca­d­e­mic results of shar­ing high qual­ity children's books with Migrant par­ents and invit­ing them to cre­ate books with their chil­dren in Pájaro Val­ley, Cal­i­for­nia in the book A Mag­i­cal Encounter: Use of Latino Lit­er­a­ture in the Class­room.

Some of the most heart­en­ing expe­ri­ences of my life have been my work with Migrant Farm Work­ing fam­i­lies.