LatinaLista — A few years ago, the nation was “aghast” to learn how few books Latino, black, Asian and Native American children were exposed to who had characters that looked like them. The report made the children’s book publishing…
LatinaLista — With current political rhetoric painting a broad characterization of who Latinos are these days, amplifying the Latinx voice and experience is as important as ever. A new imprint of Ohio State University (OSU) is creating such an…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Books for the Students of Cuzco A book can change a child. A library of books can change a whole community. Folks at the NEA Foundation, a public charity, want to fill the bookshelves of village schools…
LatinaLista — According to consumer research, 70 percent of people trust brand recommendations from their friends. The same can be said for books too. How many times have we picked up a book — either at the library, book…
By Obed Manuel Latina Lista Los Otros Dreamers is a 2014 publication that tells the stories of several DREAMers who were either deported or chose to go back to their home countries. We caught up with co-author Dr. Jill…
By Fredesvinda Rojas Borderzine CIUDAD JUÁREZ—Every fifteen days Edgar Rincón and his wife Verónica Martínez along with their two children Diego y Elena, walk towards the footbridge in front of Plaza Juárez Mall, to wait for the ruta, the…
By Jose B. Gonzalez CTLatinoNews t’s that time of year when Latinostories.com releases its national ‘Top Ten Latino authors to Watch (and read) list. Led by Connecticut resident Jose B. Gonzalez, it features fiction, an autobiography and biographies and…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mañiuco School A group of Fellows from the Melton Foundation who have been working with the Mañiuco School since 2011. Mañiuco School in southern Chile is exclusively Mapuche (Indigenous peoples from the Araucanía Region) and students…
By Shelley Diaz CBC Diversity What is the overlap between challenged books and books by diverse authors? Inspired by the recent flurry of challenges to titles with diverse characters or by minorities or LGBTQ writers, young adult author and…
Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com It is estimated that Latinos in the U.S. will purchase over $500 million in books this year – in both English and Spanish. This is a reflection of how rapidly the Latino literary world is growing,…
LatinaLista — It wasn’t that long ago that doomsayers predicted the end of print books given the rising popularity of e-readers. After all, how can something as archaic, as bound-type-on-paper, even compare, or stand alongside, to today’s technology? A…
By Daniela Oliveira Infosurhoy.com The Bibliotaxi cultural project, which offers free books to passengers in 25 Brazilian cities, has now spread to Chile, Colombia and Peru and is going digital. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Is traffic backed up?…
LatinaLista — It will be 18 years tomorrow (April 30) since children’s author Pat Mora forced the children’s book publishing industry to take one day out of the year to seriously consider diversity in children’s literature by proposing a…
LatinaLista — “We don’t need more Latino authors. We need more Latino acquisition editors.” It’s a bold statement by a woman by the name of Marcela Landres but one that reveals the crux of the problem as to why…
LatinaLista — Ever since the New York Times‘ article highlighting the lack of Latino characters in children’s books, there’s been a heightened awareness to find and get books by and about Latinos into the hands of Latino children. A…
By Shelley Diaz CBC Diversity I decided I wanted to work in children’s publishing in sixth grade. I had devoured all of the Anne of Green Gables books by this time, and I was convinced that I could be…
LatinaLista — A person, no matter how old they are, can count on their fingers to help them add and subtract but there’s no body part that can be used to help someone read. Reading comes from recognizing letters,…
LatinaLista — One national trend that is getting scant attention in the media is the rise in number of Latino children in the U.S. The impact of this rising demographic hasn’t been fully explored as to what it will…
LatinaLista — Last weekend, I received an email from a longtime reader whom I ‘virtually’ met several years ago when he was working on his book. His book, now published and award-winning, was being offered for free downloads on…
LatinaLista — Reading is my passion, and maybe if I hadn’t also fallen in love with teaching, I might have become a librarian just so that I could be around as many books as possible, and so starts the…
By Antonio Gonzalez CBC Diversity Every year, various publications and organizations will post their “Best of” lists and editor’s choice round-ups. Here are a few diversity titles that we spotted among the crème de la crème. Young Adult ARISTOTLE…
LatinaLista — The importance of language can never be underestimated, especially for authors. Yet, for the scribes of our time, language means more than just words strung together to convey a thought or a scene. For bilingual writers, language…
LatinaLista — Today, the 71st annual Madrid Book Fair (Feria del Libro Madrid) opened in the city’s Retiro Park. Organized by the association of book retailing entrepreneurs of Madrid, the publishers’ association and the federation of national associations of…
LatinaLista — The perception that there are a lot of Latino children running and skipping on playgrounds across the country is no mirage. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the number of Latino students in the nation’s public schools…
