Links to websites that can help you find multicultural books, with a focus on Spanish/English content.
Websites & Subscriptions
Helpful for homeschooled, preschool, or monolingual dual language program students, the links below assist parents in teaching, immersing, and upkeeping Spanish acquisition in the home.
The Bilingual Mom Life
Juliana fue maestra de lenguaje dual y ahora mamá de cuatro. Empezó una suscripción en Substack donde da tips (con todo y agendas y imprimibles) a padres Latinos, fluidos en el español a como incorporar el idioma en la vida cotidiana. Te puedes subscribir en sub stack o usar sus recursos gratis via Instagram @thebilingualmomlife.
Didacticlandia
Based out of Argentina for the Spanish speaking world Sandra creates authentic, practical, yet beautifully crafted activities for Spanish learning. She has freebies on instagram, or you can snatch content from her internationally friendly website.
Cuenta para aprendizaje en español de preescolar a cuarto grado.
Sol Book Box
A monthly book subscription service with international Spanish books available! From 0-8 years old.
Una suscripción mensual para recibir cuentos de cartón, bilingües o completamente en español, de todo el mundo hispanohablante.
Founder of Sol Book Box, Vanessa Nielsen Molina has a comprehensive guide to raising bilingual children on her blog. She has a free 5 day e-course or a paid 21 day course on how to “bilinguify!” your home.
Hola Amigo Box
Ideal for the preschool homeschool parent or dual language-two way students, this play-based bilingual monthly subcription delves deep into each theme. Ideal for ages 3-8 years.
Ideal para practicar el ingles y español de manera interactiva y colorida.
A successful indie publishing house, Lil’ libros are ideal for babies to 8 year olds. I especially like them because they do not take themselves too seriously & have a wide array of books featuring Latino POP culture!
Middleton Elya is an established author of Spanglish books that started publishing them before they were cool! Ideal for monolingual learners, she uses Spanish with cleverness & native fluency.
Award Lists
Award winning books usually are high in literary merit. If you want to delve deeper & browse older titles, these lists all have archives. Great for parents & educators.
Pura Belpré Award List
Curated by the American Library Association (ALA), an annual award to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work celebrates the Latinx culture.
Tomás River Mexican American Children’s Book Award
Granted by Texas State University this award features winners each year for young, middle grade, & older readers.
Batchelder Book Award
Presented by the ALA to publishers of international children’s books translatead into English. I love this award because it keeps our horizons as bilingual readers wide.
Libraries
Library catalogs are not the most intuitive! I am however listing them as resources for you to visit locally or contact if you are a librarian seeking to speak to staff who are more experienced working with the Hispanic/ Latino community.
Fort Bend County Libraries Most branches of the FBCL have decent Spanish collections with new titles added regularly. University Branch & Missouri City Branch have solid collections. You can browse the Spanish children’s collection online by clicking on the subject line “Spanish language materials — Bilingual — Juvenile fiction”.
Pasadena Public Library
The Pasadena Central Library has an extensive & one of the best Spanish Children’s & Adult Collections in the area. Staff have trained in Spain to curate their collection.
Mid Columbia Libraries
Great online source with organized lists of titles in Spanish, featuring new releases/purchases. Covers included.
Houston Public Library
HPL has an extensive history guides to Hispanic & Latino life in Texas. They also have a collection of oral history & memory projects in their archives.
Austin Public Library
One of the few public libaries with a Spanish website. Features their newest in the Spanish language adult collection.
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