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Children’s Author Monica Brown on Being Bicultural and Celebrating Individuality

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Monica Brown is the award-winning author of Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People (Henry Holt), which won the Américas Award for Children's Literature and an Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction, Waiting for the Biblioburro (Random House),…
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Yes! We Are Latinos

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In this boldly illustrated hardcover book, 13 Latino children are introduced with poems about their lives in the United States. Juanita is from Mexico, but her native language is Mixtec. When she is enrolled in a school in New York and placed…
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The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

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The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred By Samantha R. Vamos • Illustrated by Rafael López Charlesbridge • 2011 • 32 pages Paperback ($8.95) ISBN: 978-1-58089-243-8 Ages 4-8 The farm maiden makes the best arroz con leche! In…
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Books to Help Your Children Get Back to School

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Back to school books abound in contemporary children’s literature. From Kevin Henkes’ endearing Chrysanthemum (Mulberry Books), to the fun If You Take a Mouse to School (HarperCollins), and every other serialized character that has, at…
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Emerging Writer Gina Ruiz Speaks of Writing

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This is the ninth in a monthly (sometimes twice-monthly) series of guest blog posts in which emerging Latina writers talk about their work, their process and what inspires them, on Following The Lede, a blog by Sabrina Vorvoulias.  Gina…
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Global Babies; Bebés del mundo

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Global Babies;Bebés del mundo By Global Fund for Children Translated by Eida Del Risco Charlesbridge ● 2009 ● 16 pages Boardbook ($6.95) ISBN: 978-1-58089-250-6 Ages 1 - 3 Little ones won’t wait to grab this adorable collection…
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Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood

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In this gritty immersion into barrio life in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the late 1960s, Benjamin Alire Sáenz's narrator, Sammy, doesn't flinch as he studies and judges the world around him. Teachers and policemen—mostly white—see Sammy…
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My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood

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My Havana, a poignant and heartwarming biography was inspired by a radio interview of architect Secundino Fernandez, a Cuban immigrant living in New York City. An artist from early on, Fernandez loved drawing the beautiful buildings of “his…
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Latino Writers: Two Opportunities to Get Published

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Much has been written about the dearth of books written by and about Latinos, especially when compared with the rate of our population growth. We know that there is a demand for these books, but publishers don’t seem to be able (or willing,…