Latinos & Hispanics in Youth Literature

Jose learns a lot when his grandmother moves in with him and his family.

The family's playful new kitten loves to hide, keeping the children busy looking for her all over the house.

A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.

Grandma Lupita tells her granddaughter Rose and Rose's friend Terry the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a miracle that occurred near Mexico City in 1531. Includes facts about the event and its influence.

In this adaptation of the folk song The Twelve Days of Christmas, friends exchange such gifts as a piąta and cuatro luminarias. Includes pronunciation and glossary of Spanish words and a description of Christmas foods and other holiday traditions from different Latin American countries.

Long ago in what would come to be called Mexico, as Mama Alma and her granddaughter, Bella, recall happy times while walking in the garden they have tended together since Bella was a baby, Mama Alma asks that after she is gone her family remember her on one special day each year. Includes facts about The Remembering Day, El dia de los muertos.

Introduce your baby to the life of one of Mexico's most iconic painters, Frida Kahlo, in English and Spanish. Lil' Libros' colorful and cultural books will inspire parents to read to their child at the earliest age. Lil' Libros baby board books uses a simple one word/one image per page format to introduce the littlest readers to first concepts such as numbers, colors, and body parts. Lil' Libros also introduces children to Latin American culture,...

Teaches kids colors in English and Spanish.

In this bilingual cooking poem for young children, Jorge Argueta encourages more creativity and fun in the kitchen as he describes how to make tamalitos from corn masa and cheese, wrapped in cornhusks. The book opens with an homage to corn - white, yellow, blue, purple, red and black. In Maya mythology, the first men and women are even said to be made of corn. It has been an important food for people in Central America for centuries, and one of the...