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Arte Público Press offers a Día discount

Thanks to Arte Público Press for again offering a discount on books purchased for Día events!

Details from their enewsletter:
Celebrate the 19th anniversary of Children’s Day/Book Day with our special 50% discount off books purchased for Día events!

This special offer applies to books ordered before April 30, 2015, for events celebrating El día de los niños/El día de los libros. For a complete listing of our children’s books, please review our Piñata Books for Children and Piñata Books for Young Adults brochures. Fax your order to (713) 743-2847 or email it to bkorders@uh.edu. For inexpensive paperback books for children, such as Día founder Pat Mora’s The Desert Is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre, please click here.

2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List

Two of Pat’s books were selected for the 2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List. The Tejas Star Reading List Task Force annually selects a recommended reading list of bilingual English/Spanish books or books written in Spanish from books published in the three years prior to the list being published.

Congratulations to Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo! and Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube!

Art from the marvelous Meilo So

Meilo So’s illustrations from Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube have garnered a lot of praise!

The Christian Science Monitor showcases some interior pictures in this online photo gallery.

More pictures and a nice article can be found on this heflinreps blog post.

Meilo So illustration from Water Rolls, Water Rises by Pat Mora

Happy Lunar New Year!

Think good thoughts all day to set the right tone for the new year.

Pat

Illustration by Domi, from The Night the Moon Fell

Continue the Day of Diversity conversation

To continue the conversation started at the Day of Diversity: Dialogue and Action in Children’s Literature and Library Programming event at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting, the ALSC Board of Directors and ALSC President Ellen Riordan will be hosting an online Day of Diversity live chat.

This live forum is part of ALSC’s commitment to conversations on diversity and inclusion and the essential role that children’s librarian to ensure rich and diverse collections and programming. For more on ALSC’s next steps, please see this ALSC Blog post from February 6, 2015.

This online forum will be open to anyone, including ALSC members, non-members and anyone with an interest in youth library service. The forum will include live audio from ALSC President Ellen Riordan followed by a discussion led by members of the board. This event will take place on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 3pm Eastern.

Attendance is limited to 95 participants. A free webcast will be available after the live session has concluded. To register, please visit: http://www.ala.org/alsc/onlinedayofdiversityforum