Here are a few resources than can be used by teachers in connection with The Smoking Mirror
- Glossary for The Smoking Mirror
- Related readings
- The Mayan Hero Twins story from the Popol Vuh
- Description of the Aztec Underworld from the Florentine Codex
- 1978 translation by Dibble & Anderson
- New translation by David Bowles (coming soon)
- Mesoamerican day signs (Information about them, plus how you can learn your sign, your tonal, and your possible nagual form. Great project idea included.)
- Discussion questions
- Character overviews
- Resources (author recordings, etc.) from TeachingBooks.net
- Presentations, Interviews and Reviews
- Guest blog post at Latin@s in Kid Lit about Garza Twins
- Audio of most of my October 2015 presentation at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
- In July of 2015, The Monitor talked to me about The Smoking Mirror
- Author and editor Sabrina Vourvoulias interviewed me on April 10, 2015 for the magazine Al Día
- Author Jason Henderson interviewed me on February 17, 2015 for the Castle of Horror Podcast.
- A brief review of The Smoking Mirror from issue 53.3-2015 of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature.
- A review of The Smoking Mirror appeared on La Bloga on April 16, 2015
- Other useful links
- Mexiclore has a ton of resources on the Aztecs for students and teachers
- Kid Info has also gathered lots of great facts about the Aztecs and Maya
- Learn about Monterrey, Mexico, at All about Monterrey
- Geo-Mexico has great information about the García Caves (though they fail to mention the Little People, heh)