Latino Children’s/Young adult book Authors, Illustrators, & Awards Lists, by Jessica Barajas

It's wonderful to get a credible list of Latin@ children's and young adult books.  I wonder how many of these, if any, have been adopted by the Texas SBOE? That investigation is for another time....

Many thanks to Jessica Barajas, an East Palo Alto, California, pre-school teacher who put this list together by interviewing educators for resources together with her own individual research for bilingual books for her school.

Plus, her timing, in light of the current ethnic studies movement in Arizona, Texas, and California, the passing of AB2016, the Texas SBOE battle over the racist textbook, and California Proposition 58 is impeccable.  Regarding the latter, Prop. 58 regards Non-English Languages Allowed in Public Education [2016]) that if passed, will peel back anti-bilingual education code embodied in Prop. 227.

This is great for families—any and all—that are looking for resources.

This clearly took a lot of time, so thank you for your generosity and your commitment to our children and community in bringing forth this treasure of a collection.  Hopefully, city and school librarians will take note and at least check their acquisitions against this list. Also, check out this self-explanatory website for more resources:  http://weneeddiversebooks.org/

If others have books to add to this list, by all means post to this blog.  Sharing resources and opportunities is what it's all about.

Angela Valenzuela 

c/s

Latino Children’s/Young adult book Authors, Illustrators, & Awards Lists

●      Latino Authors & Illustrators

●      Latino Picture Books

●      Colorín, Colorado Bilingual Booklist

●      10 Spanish/English Bilingual Picture Books

●      National Latino Children's Literature Conference

●      Alma Flor Ada Books

●      Tomas Rivera Book Awards

●      Pura Belpre Awards

●      Read Conmigo

Bilingual Children’s books (Pre-k - 1st grade)

●      Call Me Tree / Llamame arbol

●      Tooth on the Loose

●      Quinito's Neighborhood/El Vecindario de Quinito

●      Super Cilantro Girl/La Superniña del Cilantro (English and Spanish Edition)

●      La Mariposa

●      The Park Our Town Built / El parque que nuestro pueblo construyó

●      Hello Ocean/Hola mar

●      Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina

●      Rene Has Two Last Names / Rene tiene dos apellidos

●      Talking with Mother Earth/Hablando con madre tierra: Poems/Poemas

●      All the Colors We Are: Todos los colores de nuestra piel/The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color

●      My Big Sister / Mi hermana mayor

●      Family Pictures

●      Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas

●      Let's Eat!/A Comer! (My Family: Mi Familia

●      Papá and Me

●      Mamá and Me

●      We Are Cousins / Somos primos

●      Waiting for Papá / Esperando a Papá

●      From North to South: Del Norte al Sur

●      The Upside Down Boy: El niño de cabeza  

●      Moony Luna / Luna, Lunita Lunera

●      What Can You Do with a Paleta / ¿Qué Puedes Hacer con una Paleta?

●      A Bailar!/ Let's Dance!

●      Counting With / Contando Con Frida

●      Lucha Libre: Anatomy / Anatomia

●      Loteria: First Words / Primeras Palabras

●      Hands Are Not for Hitting / Las manos no son para pegar (Best Behavior) (English and Spanish Edition)

●      How Do I Feel? / ¿Cómo me siento? (Good Beginnings) (Spanish Edition)

●      Cool Down and Work Through Anger/Cálmate y supera la ira (Learning to Get Along®) (English and Spanish Edition)

 
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