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Books to Build Connections to Latino Culture for K-10 | Libro por libro
As a librarian, I love it when I find books that relate to one another in terms of themes or content, which gets me thinking about potential program ideas. The titles selected for this first column of...
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Librarians Sound Off: Not a Lack of Latino Lit for Kids, but a Lack of Awareness
Spanish-language titles by Latin American publishers.Photo by Sujei Lugo Librarians who serve children in predominantly Latino communities were shocked this past December to read a New York Times...
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Resources for Finding Latino Kid Lit
Celebrated author Benjamin Alire Sáenz swept the Youth Media Awards on Monday with Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (S & S, 2012). The young adult novel about two...
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Learning Together: New Council to Study Latino Families’ Digital Media Use
With the population of Latinos in the U.S on the rise—and current estimates indicating that a quarter of the nation’s children ages five and younger are Latino—the digital needs of Latino families have...
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Latino Writers Convene at 2nd Annual Comadres Conference
A group of aspiring Latino writers—some from as far as Miami, Oregon, and even England—gathered in Brooklyn, NY, earlier this month at the second annual Comadres and Compadres Latino Writers Conference...
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How Pura Belpré Paved the Way for Latino Firsts at 2016 YMAs | Libro por libro
A scene from Matt de la Peña’s Last Stop on Market Street, illus. by Christian Robinson. The cheers that resounded on January 11 at the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2016 Youth Media Awards...
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Even More Awards for Spanish, Latin American, and Latin@ Kid Lit
Looking for more award-winning titles to add to your Spanish-language collections and to include more Latin@-focused acclaimed children’s and young adult books? Here are other book prizes that are...
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