Siete habitaciones a oscuras.
(Seven Dark Rooms)
Luis Francisco Vargas, Desert Sage Library, Phoenix P.L., AZ - 01/15/2009 Aguilera, Gabriela and M. Brozon, A. Gazquez, J. Malpica, J. Quezadas, and A. Romero.
illus. by Juan Pablo Gázquez. Mexico/U.S.: Grupo Norma. 2008. 141p. ISBN 978-970-09-1851-8. pap. $8.95.More
Los Superfósforos.
(The Super Matchsticks)
Betsy Duarte Shepard, Wakefield Middle School, Tucson, AZ - 01/15/2009 Santa Ana, Antonio.
illus. by Dani The O. Argentina/U.S.: Grupo Editorial Norma. 2008. 101p. ISBN 978-987-545-237-4. pap. $8.95. More
Agustín vuela muy alto.
(Agustín Flies Very High)
Beth Rotella, New York - 01/15/2009 Cleyet-Merle, Laurence.
tr. by Hernando Echeverry. illus. by Laurence Cleyet-Merle. Colombia: Panamericana Editorial. 2008. 34p. ISBN 978-9583028656. $26.40.More
Misterio en el barrio chino.
(Mystery in China Town)
Liliana Barro Zecker, Associate Professor, School of Education, DePaul Univ., Chicago, IL - 01/15/2009 Foveau, Georges.
tr. by Hernando Echeverry. illus. by Olivier Blazy. Colombia: Panamericana Editorial. 2008. 126p. ISBN 978-958-30-2932-5. pap. $12.95.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 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...