Mora, Sweden Mora, Sweden Mora is a locality and the seat of Mora Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 10,896 inhabitants in 2010. There are signs of human activity in the surroundings of Mora dating from 4000 BC. The earliest found buildings in Mora are from the 7th century. Some of the buildings can today be found in Mora's open-air museum "Zorns gammelgård" ("Zorn's old homestead"). Mora parish was established in the 13th century. In late 1520, Gustav Vasa stopped in Mora, in order to organize a rebellion against the Danish troops which occupied Sweden. The citizens of Mora first declined to
Pat Mora have books, celebrations and materials for "Dia" to include "all languages spoken in the United States." In 2004, the Library Service to Children's Board of the American Library Association became the "national home" to "Dia". Mora says, "If we want our nation to be a country of readers...[we] need to work together to inspire communities in nurturing reading families." Mora has received Honorary Doctorates in Letters from North Carolina State University and SUNY Buffalo and is an Honorary Member of the American Library Association. She was a recipient of a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship to write in Umbria, Italy. She was