For Children:

Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates risuenos y otros poemas de primavera
Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems/Los angeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otono
From the Bellybutton of the Moon and other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano
Poems to Dream Together/Poemas para sonar juntos

For Adults:
Ten volumes of poetry including:

No Golden Gate for Us
Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation
Poemas zurdos
De amor oscuro/Of Dark Love
Body in Flames/Cuerpo en llamas
Loma Prieta
Quake Poems
Tattoos

Textbooks:

Mundo 21
Pasaporte al Mundo 21
Tu Mundo
Nuestro Mundo

Awards and Recognition:

1984 Chicano Literary Prize
1993 American Book Award
1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
1997 Pura Belpre Honor Award by the American Library Association and the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal.
1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association
2002 Pura Belpre Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships

Other lectures and readings