The Legend of Mexicatl

Last updated Thursday, July 25, 2002

Author: Jo Harper
Illustrator: Robert Casilla
Date of Publication: 1998
ISBN: 1890515051
Grade Level: 5th Grade
Date(s) Used: Sep. 2002

Synopsis: (from the pulisher) In this story of the hero for whom Mexico is named, children learn of Mexicatl, a young man whose spiritual vision inspires him to lead his people out of the scorching desert to their new homeland.

Craft ideas:

• At the end of the book, the author tells us about legends being told by pictographs drawn on deer skins. Take a strip of paper and draw your own story using your own pictographs.
• What was the next adventure of Mexicatl and his people? Write it and illustrate.
• Make a feather headband and illustrate it from scenes from the book.