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Si yo pudiera.
(If I Could)
Luis Francisco Vargas, Desert Sage Library, Phoenix P.L., AZ - 01/15/2009 Sweetland, Nancy.
tr. by Queta Fernandez. illus. by Robert Sweetland. U.S.: Raven Tree Press. 2008. 32p. ISBN 978-09770906-9-3. $ 16.95.More
Oloyou. (Oloyou)
Cristi Jenkins, Access & Programs, Fort Vancouver Regional Library, WA - 12/15/2008 Cardenas, Teresa.
tr. by Elisa Amado. illus. by Margarita Sada. Canada: Groundwood Books. 2008. 32p. ISBN 978-0-88899-795-1. $18.95.More
Pepita en la calle Pepper. (Pepita on Pepper Street)
Beth Rotella, New York City - 12/15/2008 Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas.
tr. by María Estela Monsivais. illus. by Alex Pardo DeLange. U.S.: Piñata Books: Arte Público Press. 2008. 34p. ISBN 978-1-55885-443-7. $15.95.More
La Acequia de Juan del Oso. (Juan the Bear and the Water of Life)
Veronica Covington, Univ. of Texas, Austin - 12/15/2008 Lamadrid, Enrique R. and Juan Estevan Arellano.
tr. by authors. illus. by Amy Córdova. U.S.: University of New Mexico Press. 2008. unpaged. ISBN 978-0-8263-4543-1. $17.95.More
Pelé, El rey del fútbol. (Pelé, King of Soccer)
Ann Welton, Grant Center for the Expressive Arts, Tacoma, WA - 12/15/2008 Brown, Monica.
tr. by Fernando Gayesky. illus. by Rudy Gutierrez. U.S.: Rayo: HarperCollins. 2009. unpaged. ISBN 978-0-06-122779-0. $17.99.More
Bebés del mundo. (Global Babies)
Coop Renner, formerly from El Paso Independent School District, TX - 12/15/2008 Global Fund for Children.
tr. by Eida del Risco. U.S.: Charlesbridge Publishing. 2009. 16p. photogs. ISBN 978-1-58089-250-6. BDB. $6.95.More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University December 20, 2008 Last-minute gift for kids on Charro Claus's list
Say, how's that holiday shopping thing going? If you still seek the ideal ... More
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
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University July 1, 2008 Captain Cheech
Cheech and Chong! There was a time—and I swear to you it wasn't so long ago, ba... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University June 28, 2008 Ruében Martínez redux
In case our story a few weeks ago wasn't enough to get all you Anaheim visitors over ... 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...