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.
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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
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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
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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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