Selection of Collection Development articles for librarians and bookbuyers spanning a wide range of subjects from Críticas
Children's Halloween Roundup by Adriana Domíguez, 9/15/2008 8:56:00 AM
It’s that spooky time of year again… When children dress up like monsters, witches, and goblins, and libraries and bookstores scramble to fill the little ones’ insatiable demands for fright!! Well…not quite. Halloween is still a month and a half away, and, as most of us know, the majority of titles related to that time of the year—especially those for little ones—are not all that scary. More
Children's Halloween Roundup
by Adriana Domíguez - 09/15/2008
It’s that spooky time of year again… When children dress up like monsters, witches, and goblins, and libraries and bookstores scramble to fill the little ones’ insatiable demands for fright!! Well…not quite. Halloween is still a month and a half away, and, as most of us know, the majority of titles related to that time of the year—especially those for little ones—are not all that scary.
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Yuyi Morales and Margarita Engle Win 2008 Pura Belpré Awards
By Ximena Diego - 01/15/2008
The Pura Belpré Awards, one of the most prestigious distinctions for Latino/Latina authors and illustrators of children’s books, were presented on January 14 at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia.
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The Best Children and YA Books of 2007
By Ximena Diego - 01/15/2008
Something magnificent happened in 2007 in the children’s publishing industry. Many Spanish-language translations of American best-sellers were pretty good. Some even outstanding: their texts flow; they are a pleasure to read and a delight to hear.
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Biblia para niños. (A Child’s Bible)
By staff - 11/15/2007 Wright, Sally Ann.
tr. by Grupo Nivel Uno. illus. by Honor Ayres. U.S.: Grupo Nelson. 2007. 141p. 978-1-60255-012-4. $13.99.
La Biblia en un año para niños. (The One Year Children’s Bible)
By staff - 11/15/2007 Davies, Rhona.
tr. by Adriana Powell Cabral and Mayra de Ramírez. illus. by Marcin Piwowarski. U.S.: Tyndale Niños: Tyndale. 2007. 349p. index. ISBN 978-1-4143-1500-3. $19.99
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University October 17, 2008 New graphics and PSAs to promote bibliotecas
The American Library Association and Spanish-language broadcasting colossus Univision... More
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
A place of refuge
In this issue’s cover story, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and...
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