Alas al Borde / Borderland Wings is an illustrated bilingual children’s book that follows a least tern (native bird), and a cinnamon teal (migratory bird), who meet at the border wall and journey together across the shared binational landscape. The story grew out of an interdisciplinary process combining design research on the border landscape with educational workshops in which children’s drawings were incorporated as visual textures into the story’s main characters.
By translating academic research into a poetic and accessible form, the book invites new generations to imagine border landscapes through connection, care, and interdependence. It positions learning as a shared and relational process across species, communities, and territories.
The book’s first edition, published in summer 2026, is intended for distribution to schools, libraries, and community educational programs in the San Diego–Tijuana region.
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