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Sampler of Latino Children's Books Authors and Illustrators

For more complete information on Latino writers, please consult the section "Resources for Serving Latino Children and Families" on this web site. Below is but a sampling of the Latina and Latino authors and illustrators who create books for children in this country, where they live, and where they were born. If an author or illustrator has a website, his or her name has a direct link, so you can reach the website by clicking on the name. Winners of the Pura Belpré Award, both Medal and Honors are included in the Sampler as well as winners of the Américas Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature (Award and Honorable Mentions) and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award.

Alma Flor Ada

Renato Alarcao

Francisco Alarcón

Malin Alegria

Isabel Allende

Julia Alvarez

Rudolfo Anaya

George Ancona

Gloria Anzaldúa

Jorge Argueta

Paula S. Barragán

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Anilú Bernardo

Ethriam Brammer

Monica Brown

Pricilla García Burris

Viola Canales

Robert Casilla

Omar S. Castañeda

Julia Mercedes Castilla

Ana Castillo

Consuelo Mendez Castillo

Joe Cepeda

Veronica Chambers

e E. Charlton-Trujillo

Becky Chavarría-Cháirez

Sandra Cisneros

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Raul Colon

Amy Cordova

Lucha Corpi

Ina Cumpiano

Carmen Agra Deedy

Lulu Delacre

David Diaz

Domi

Arthur Dorros

Margarita Engle

D. H. Figueredo

Ernesto Galarza

Stephanie Garcia

Xavier Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza

Elizabeth Gomez

Lucía M. González

Rigoberto González

Maya Christina Gonzalez

Carmen T. Bernier Grand

Reyna Grande

Susan Guevara

Akemi Guitierrez

Juan Felipe Herrera

Pauline Rodriguez Howard

Francisco Jiménez

Ana Juan

Rene Colato Lainez

Ofelia Dumas Lachtman

Daniel Lechon

Loretta Lopez

Rafael Lopez

Patricia Santos Marcantonio

Floyd Martinez

Victor Martinez

Nicholasa Mohr

Marisa Montes

Pat Mora

Magaly Morales

Yuyi Morales

Jose Ortega

Nancy Osa

Amanda Irma Pérez

Jan Romero-Stevens

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Jose Ramirez

Antonio Ramirez

Luis Rodríquez

Alfonso Ruano

Benjamín Alire Saenz

Enrique Sanchez

Simón Silva

Gary Soto

Maribel Suarez

Carmen Tafolla

Pablo Torrecilla

Leyla Torres

Ana Veciana-Suarez

Anne Vega

Beatriz Vidal

San Francisco CA · born in Cuba

Brazil · born in Brazil

Davis CA · born in Wilmington CA

La Frontera CA · born in San Pancho

San Rafael CA · born in Peru but is Chilean

Weybridge VT · born in Dominican Republic

Albuquerque NM · born in Pastura NM

Santa Fe NM · born in Brooklyn NY

deceased · born in South Texas

San Francisco · born in El Salvador

Quito Ecuador · born Ecuador

San Antonio TX · born San Antonio

Plantation FL · born in Cuba

Detroit MI · born in El Centro CA

Flagstaff AZ · born in Peru

Santa Ana CA

Stanford CA · born in South Texas

Connecticut · born in New Jersey

deceased, born in Guatemala

lives in Houston TX · born in Columbia, SA

Anthony NM · born in Chicago

born in Texas

Los Angeles, CA · born in Los Angeles

lives in Philadelphia PA · born in Brooklyn NY

Madison WI · born in South Texas

New Mexico · born in San Antonio TX

San Antonio TX · born in Chicago IL

Athens GA · born in Puerto Rico

New York NY · born in Puerto Rico

Taos NM

Oakland CA · born in Mexico

San Francisco CA · born in Puerto Rico

Georgia · born in Havana Cuba

Silver Spring MD · born in Puerto Rico

San Diego CA · born in Ft. Lauderdale FL

Tlaquepaque Mexico · born in Oaxaco Mexico

Seattle WA · born in Washington DC

CA · born in Los Angeles CA of Cuban American descent

New Jersey · born in Cuba

Nayarit, Mexico · near Tepic

Hoboken NJ · born in Los Angeles CA

San Antonio TX · born in South Texas

San Francisco CA · born in Kingsville TX

San Francisco CA · born in Mexico

Hialeah FL · born in Cuba

New York NY · born in Bakersfield CA, raised in Mexico

San Francisco · born in Southern CA

Oregon · born in Puerto Rico

CA · born in Guerrero Mexico

lives in Santa Fe NM

lives in CA

Fresno CA · born in Fowler CA

San Antonio TX

Santa Clara CA · born in El Rancho Blanco, Mexico

Madrid Spain · born in Spain

Sun Valley CA · born in El Salvador

Los Angeles CA · born in LA of Mexican descent

Houston TX, born in Mexico

New Jersey, Texas, New York, born in El Paso TX

lives in San Diego CA · born in Mexico City

Oregon · born in Pueblo CO

Oregon · born in New Mexico

San Francisco CA · born in Fresno CA

New York · born in New York

Walnut Creek CA · born in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Santa Fe NM · born in El Paso TX

Mexico · born in Mexico

CA · born in Mexico

Toronto and New York · born in Ecuador

Portland OR · born in Chicago

Oxnard CA · born in Mexico

Arizona · born in Las Vegas NM

San Joaquin Valley CA · born in San Diego CA

Los Angeles CA · born LA

Guadalajara, Mexico, born in Mexico City

Chicago IL · born in Juárez Mexico

Madrid · born in Toledo Spain

El Paso TX · born in Las Cruces NM

Mexico City · born in Guadalajara

San Bernardino · born in Mexicali Mexico

Berkeley CA · born in Fresno CA

Mexico City · born in Mexico City

San Antonio TX · born San Antonio

Los Angeles CA · born in Madrid Spain

Vermont · born in Bogata Columbia

Miami FL · Cuba

lives in Granville OH

Argentina · born in Argentina

Reminders:

1. The U.S. Latino population is highly diverse in race, religion and country of origin among other characteristics.  This national community has strong loyalty to the Spanish language, to the preservation of culture, and to family which includes respect for the elderly and the nurturing of children.

2. In your community, promote the family literacy initiative Día de los niños/Día de los libros, Children's Day/Book Day. Support the culminating celebrations of a year of linking all children to books, languages, and cultures on or about April 30th.

3. Teens will also enjoy books by authors such as Marjorie Agosín, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Rosario Ferré, Cristina Garcia, Ray González, Oscar Hijuelos, Alberto Rios, Esmeralda Santiago, Helena María Viramontes and poets including Lorna Dee Cervantes, Martín Espada and Virgil Suárez among others.

4. Many Latinas and Latinos feel a strong debt to the indigenous writers of the Americas, past and present, and to writers who published in Spanish in Spain and the Americas such as Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Gabriela Mistral.

Statistics Worth Pondering

·        One in four children born in the U.S. is Latino.

·        One in four of our school-age children comes from a home in which a language other than English is spoken (Spanish, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Hmong, Russian, Arabic, Navajo, etc.)  Virtually all of the world’s languages are spoken in our multicultural country.

·        From a demographic though not power perspective, the terms majority and minority  are becoming obsolete.  Latinos comprise about 14% of the population—and growing, and 16% of the U.S. population under eighteen years of age.

·        Latinos are the largest “minority.” More than 60% of Latinos are of Mexican descent.  Spanish is spoken in homes whose country of origin may also be Puerto Rico, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, etc. Do our libraries, book stores, schools, and conferences, reflect these statistics?

·        Latinos are younger than the U.S. population as a whole.

·        Only about 2% of the 5,000 children’s books published in the U.S. annually are by or about Latinos, a sad statistic that doesn't change as the statistics above do.  How can you help change this fact?

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