Latinx Heritage Books
We have the books below and many more. Check out the display in the Children's Room, or scroll to the bottom of the page for read-aloud video links and items you can get immediately via Hoopla with your library card!
Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia / Jeanette Winter.
Picture Book | Beach Lane Books | 2010 | First edition.
Call Number: J BIN HISTORICAL WINTER
"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night."--Amazon.com.
Digging for words : José Alberto Gutiérrez and the library he built / Angela Burke Kunkel ; illustrated by Paola Escobar.
Picture Book | Schwartz & Wade Books | 2020 | First edition.
Call Number: NUTMEG J BIN HISTORICAL KUNKEL
In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.
Feliz new year, Ava Gabriela! / Alexandra Alessandri ; illustrated by Addy Rivera Sonda.
Picture Book | Albert Whitman & Company | 2020
Call Number: J HOLIDAY NEW YEAR ALESSANDRI
Ava Gabriela is excited to celebrate the New Year with her extended family in Colombia, but being around her loud relatives in an unfamiliar place makes her shy and quiet. Includes author's note and glossary of Spanish words.
Juana & Lucas / Juana Medina.
Early Chapter Book | Candlewick Press | 2016 | First edition.
Call Number: J FICTION MEDINA
A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
Also look for the sequels, Juana & Lucas. Big Problemas and Juana & Lucas : Muchos Changes .
A thousand white butterflies / Jessica Betancourt-Perez & Karen Lynn Williams ; illustrated by Gina Maldonado.
Picture Book | Charlesbridge | 2021
Call Number: J PICTURE BOOK BETANCOURT-PEREZ
Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.
The last cuentista / Donna Barba Higuera.
Chapter Book | Levine Querido | 2021
Call Number: J FICTION HIGUERA
"Habâia una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Peäna, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinisterCollective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard--or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, anyhope for our future. Can she make them live again?"--
¡Vamos! Let's go to the market / by Raúl the Third ; colors by Elaine Bay.
Picture Book | Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2019
Call Number: J PICTURE BOOK RAUL
Little Lobo and his dog make deliveries to marketplace vendors in a busy Mexican-American border town, in a celebration of diversity by the award-winning illustrator of the Lowriders in Space series that blends stylistically detailed graphic-art panels with clever bilingual text.
Falling short / Ernesto Cisneros.
Chapter Book | Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 2022 | First edition.
Call Number: J FICTION CISNEROS
Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won’t change things at home—not without each other’s help.
This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac’s parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father’s approval by earning a spot on the school’s basketball team.
But will their friendship and support for each other be enough to keep the two boys from falling short?
Paola Santiago and the river of tears / Tehlor Kay Mejia.
Book | Disney-Hyperion | 2020 | First edition.
Call Number: J FICTION MEJIA
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
"This fast-paced journey into Latinx folklore, with its clever protagonist, is sure to keep readers turning pages into the night." - Booklist (starred review)
When angels sing : the story of rock legend Carlos Santana / Michael Mahin ; illustrated by Jose Ramírez.
Book | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 2018 .
Call Number: J BIN HISTORICAL MAHIN
Celebrate music icon Carlos Santana in this vibrant, rhythmic picture book.
Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play el violín. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing—a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music.
Carlos tried el clarinete and el violín, but there were no angels. Then he picked up la guitarra. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and the energy of Rock and Roll, and added the slow heat of Afro-Cuban drums and the cilantro-scented sway of the music he’d grown up with in Mexico. There were a lot of bands in San Francisco but none of them sounded like this. Had Carlos finally found the music that would make his angels real?
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Paintbrush For Paco - read aloud by KidTime StoryTime on Youtube
A paintbrush for Paco / by Tracey Kyle ; illustrated by Joshua Heinsz.
Book | Little Bee Books | 2018 | First edition.
Call Number: J PICTURE BOOK KYLE
Paco cannot seem to concentrate during class, but when his teacher takes him to the art room he revels in the colors and the opportunity to paint. Includes author's note and glossary of Spanish words.
Watch this read aloud from home!
Zombies Don't Eat Veggies - read aloud by Jaime Camil on Storytime Online
Zombies don't eat veggies / by Megan Lacera & Jorge Lacera ; illustrated by Jorge Lacera.
Book | Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. | 2019 | First edition.
Call Number: J PICTURE BOOK LACERA
Although Mo's parents insist he eat zombie cuisine, Mo craves vegetables and strives to get them to taste recipes made from his hidden garden. Includes recipes.
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