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Celebrating Latinx Heritage: A Curated Collection of Nonfiction Picture Books
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items Latinx Heritage Month, celebrated from September 15th to October 15th, is a special time to amplify and honor Latinx and Hispanic voices. While it’s important to read and share Latinx stories year-round, this month is dedicated to celebrating the ric...
This inspiring biography on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the youngest congresswoman in America, highlights her life's upbringing and determination.
Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Selena Quintanilla's music career began at the age of nine when she started singing in her family's band. She went from using a hairbrush as a microphone to traveling from town to town to play gigs. But Selena faced a challenge: People said that she ...
Queen of Tejano Music: Selena
When young Rosita moved from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States, she didn't know what to expect--but she knew she loved to sing and dance. Working to overcome the language barrier and bullying she experienced in a strange new country, Rita eve...
A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno
An inspiring picture book biography of storyteller, puppeteer, and New York City’s first Puerto Rican librarian, who championed bilingual literature.
When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican h...
Planting Stories the Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise
Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules...
¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
Alicia Alonso wouldn't let her vision impairment keep her from dancing.
As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to f...
Alicia Alonso Dances On
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and today is one of the world's favourite artists. As a child, she was badly affected by polio, and later suffered a terrible accident that left her disabled and in pain. Shortly after this accident, Kahlo took up pa...
Portrait of an Artist: Frida Kahlo
Melissa Cristina Márquez is a fiercely proud Hispanic marine biologist, wildlife educator, professional speaker, and presenter. She has given two TEDx talk on sharks and female scientists, and her work has been highlighted in NPR, Allure, Disney+, BB...
Mother of Sharks by Melissa Cristina Márquez
As a child, little Shakira knew she was born to be performer. Even as a little girl, she was full of natural rhythm and she was obsessed with singing, writing songs and dancing whenever she got the opportunity.
At 14 years old she recorded her first...
Little People, Big Dreams: Shakira - Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
This is a moving story--one that resonates with millions of immigrants who make up the fabric of our country--about one girl living in two worlds, a girl whose DACA application was eventually approved and who is now living her American dream.
When ...
Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story by Areli Morales, a DACA Recipient
When Estela Juarez's mom is deported to Mexico, Estela knows she has to speak up for her family. Told in Estela's own words, Until Someone Listens is a true story about a young girl finding her voice and using it to make change.
In this heart wrenchi...
Until Someone Listens: A Story About Borders, Family, and One Girl's Mission
Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over Latin America and across the United States,From Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to singer Selena Quintanilla to NASA’...
Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez
A gorgeous and inspiring picture book based on the life of José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector in Bogotá, Colombia who started a library with a single discarded book found on his route.
In the city of Bogata, in the barrio of La Nueva Gloria...
Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built
Marcelo and Julio show determination and strength every day as they cross the border from Venezuela to Colombia to attend a better school in this empowering picture book.
The stories told in the Against All Odds picture book series are true stories ...
The Amazing Students of Venezuela by Claudia Bellante
Two girls in Bolivia, with a passion for wrestling, beat the odds in this new empowering picture book
Noelia and Wara are two girls who live in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. Wrestling is their passion. They are often told that “wrestling is for boys...
The Wrestling Cholitas of Bolivia by Claudia Bellante