Our Favorite Authors & Sites

Below you’ll find links to the websites of some authors of children and young adult who authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States in their writing. Books by many of these authors are featured in posts and/or Educator’s Guides on Vamos a Leer. To find those resources, enter the author’s name in the search bar to the right. You’ll also find a list of blogs, websites, publishers, and awards which we appreciate and think will be useful resources for our readers. Although some have been discontinued in recent years, their content remains relevant.

Recommended Authors

Children

• Alma Flor Ada
• Jorge Argueta
• Carmen Bernier-Grand
• Monica Brown
• Angela Cervante
• Juan Felipe Herrera
• Laura Lacámara
• René Colato Laínez
• Pat Mora
• Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Roseanne Greenfield Thong
• Duncan Tonatiuh
• Yuyi Morales

Young Adult

• Socorro Acioli
• Malín Alegría
• Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Julia Alvarez
• Tracey Baptiste
• Ruth Behar
• Ann Burg
• Skila Brown
• Eduardo Calcines
• Ann Cameron
• Viola Canales
• Edwidge Danticat
• Matt de la Peña
• Alexandria Diaz
• Christina Diaz Gonzalez
• Michael Dorris
• Margarita Engle
• Juan Felipe Herrera
• Enrique Flores-Galbis
• Cristina García
• Guadalupe Garcia McCall
• Javier Garza
• Christina Gonzalez
• Ashley Hope-Pérez
• Oscar Hijuelos
• Ann Jaramillo
• Francisco Jiménez
• Lynn Joseph
• Nick Lake
• Sonia Manzano
• Meg Medina
• Lyn Miller Lachmann
• Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Sonia Nazario
• Daniel José Older
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Nancy Osa
• Mal Peet
• Marge Pellegrino
• Isabel Quintero
• Lila Quintero Weaver
• Laura Resau
• Sís, Peter
• Gary Soto
• Francisco X. Stork
• María Virginia Farinango
• Ibi Zoboi

Websites

Latinx Podcasts

• Latina to Latina
• Jefas in Motion

Blogs & Other Sites

• 100 Scope Notes
• All Brown All Around (discontinued in 2016)
• America Reads Spanish
• American Indians in Children’s Literature
• Lee and Low’s blog, The Open Book 
• Association for Library Service to Children Blog
• BookJoy: Celebrating the Zing of Creativity, Reading, and Día
• Brown Bookshelf
• Cuatro Gatos
• Cooperative Children’s Book Center: CCBlogC and Publishing Statistics
• Colorín Colorado
• Crazy Quilts
• Cynsations, a blog by author Cynthia Leitich Smith
• De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children
• Diversity in YA
• Fat Girl Reading
• Gathering Books
• Gay YA, a master list of LGBTQUIA+  YA literature
• Hispanic Reader (discontinued in 2013)
• Imagínense Libros (archived in 2013)
• La Bloga
• Latin Baby Book Club (discontinued in 2010)
• Latina Book Club
• Latinas 4 Latino Literature
• Latino Family Literacy Project
• Latinxs in Kids Lit
• Lectura Books
• Pirate Tree
• Pragmatic Mom
• Reading in Color (discontinued in 2016)
• Reading While White 
• Reforma: the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking
• Rethinking Schools and the Rethinking Schools blog
• Rich in Color
• Sarah Park, a blog
• Teaching for Change and their project, Social Justice Books
• Teaching Latin American Libros
• Teaching Tolerance
• Two Writing Teachers (discontinued in 2015)
• UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute (our home office): K-12 Resources
• We Need Diverse Books
• We’re the People
• Zetta Elliot, a blog
• Zinn Education Project

Multicultural Publishers

• Arte Público and their Piñata Press
• Cinco Puntos Press
• Lee & Low Books
• House of Anansi / Groundwood / Tigrillo
• Tapioca Stories

Awards

• AFRICA: Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA)
• AFRICAN-AMERICAN: Coretta Scott King Award
• AMERICAN INDIAN: American Indian Youth Literature
• ASIAN/PACIFIC: Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
• LATIN AMERICAN: Américas Award
• LATINO/A: Pura Belpré // Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award
• MIDDLE EASTERN: Middle East Book Award