Additional Resources 

Resources

Latine Book Titles

• Pura Belpre Resource Center: "Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1996 -- portraying, affirming, and celebrating the Latino cultural experience"

• Latinx Kidlit Book Database: from the website, "offers the ability to sort by age category, genre, theme, representation featured, and more, making it easier for teachers, librarians, and book lovers to find books by Latinx creators from picture books to young adult."

Resources For Educators

• Latinx Kidlit School Visit Database: from the website, "school visit database aims to serve as a resource for schools and libraries that would like to host a Latinx author or illustrator and can afford to do so".

• Diverse BookFinder: a resource for "librarians, educators, parents, book creators, and publishers who seek to create collections in which all children can see themselves -- and each other -- reflected in the picture books they read." They aslo provide grants for schools and educators to purchase books!

• First Book: focuses on "equal access to quality education for kids in need". They have a Book Bank where books can be purchased in bulk. 

Resources for Creators 

• Equity Directory: a database of BIPOC literary agents created by Literary Agents of Change to help querying authors and illustrators find and connect with BIPOC agents and to foster community between BIPOC agents and their publishing peers.".

• The Conscious Kid is an organization that "supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias"

Community Organizations

• The Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative (CVIIC) has compiled an Immigration Services Directory, a list of non-profit immigration services providers in the Central Valley.

• The Latino Community Foundation pulled together a report of Central Valley Latino-Led Organizations.

•  The Latino Community Foundation and Measure of America of the Social Science Research Council created the California Latino Power Map to help "visualize where Latino non-profits are located alongside contextual information about their surrounding communities".