Sites We Like

Below you’ll 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.

Blogs and Websites

• 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

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