Behind the scenes here at Wrapped in Foil we have lined up some exciting opportunities to share multicultural books this year. To kick the year off with a bang, let’s start with the 2014 Latin@s in Kid Lit Reading Challenge.
The challenge is pretty straightforward: read one book a month that is written by a Latin@ author and/or includes Latin@ characters, settings, themes, etc. from January 1, 2014-December 31, 2014.
How to participate: post somewhere that you are joining the 2014 Latin@s in Kid Lit Reading Challenge and then sign up in the comments of the Reading Challenge announcement including a direct link to your post. They also request that you copy and paste their reading challenge logo onto your site. Go to the announcement page for other suggestions how to participate and great suggestions for books and resources.
Some books we’ve already reviewed:
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough by Katie Smith Milway and illustrated by Sylvie Daigneault (review)
Ellen Ochoa: The First Hispanic Woman Astronaut by Maritza Romero (review)
Valerie Petrillo’s A Kid’s Guide to Latino History: More than 50 Activities (review)
Can’t wait to add to the list.
Are you participating? If you’d like, let us know!
Hi! When you complete a book for the Latin@s in Kid Lit Challenge, please DM the link to us on Twitter @LatinosInKidLit, send it through our “Write to Us” page at http://www.latinosinkidlit.com, or email it to me at cindyrodriguez71@gmail.com. Thanks!
Cindy
Cindy,
Sure thing. I thought I sent it to your Latinosinkidlit gmail, but maybe I didn’t get the address right.