Sites We Like

Below you’ll find a list of blogs, websites, publishers, and awards which we like and think will be useful resources for our readers.

Blogs

• 100 Scope Notes
• All Brown All Around
• American Indians in Children’s Literature
• BookJoy: Celebrating the Zing of Creativity, Reading, and Día
• Cindy L. Rodriguez
• Crazy Quilts: Rambling of an urban high school librarian
• De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children
• Fledgling
• Gathering Books
• Imagínense Libros: Celebrating Latino Children’s Literature, Literacy, and Libraries
• Latin Baby Book Club
• Latin@s in Kids Lit
• Mitali’s Fire Escape
• Ocean in a Saucer
• Pragmatic Mom
• Quatro Gatos
• Reading in Color
• The Association for Library Service to Children Blog
• The Brown Bookshelf
• The Hispanic Reader
• The Pirate Tree
• The Open Book
• Two Writing Teachers
• Wrapped Up in Books

Websites

• America Reads Spanish
• Colorín Colorado
• Cooperative Children’s Book Center
• Latin Baby Book Club
• Latinas 4 Latino Literature
• Lectura Books
• Paula Carns, Literatures and Languages Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Powerful Hispanic and Latin American Images Revealed in Picturebooks
• Quatro Gatos
• The Latino Family Literacy Project
• The Power of the Teacher: Integrating Latino-themed literature in the K-12 classroom
• Reforma: the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking
• Rethinking Schools
• Teaching Tolerance
• Zinn Education Project

Publishers

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

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