Recommended Reading

Alire, Camila and Ardhibeque, Orlando.  Serving Latino communities.  New York: Neal-Schuman, 1998.

Brown, Jean E. and Stephens, Elaine C.  Exploring diversity : literature themes and activities for grades 4-8.  Englewood, Colo.:  Teacher Ideas Press, 1996.

Burgin, Robert, Ed.  Nonfiction Reader’s Advisory.  Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

Byrd, Susannah Mississippi.  Bienvenidos! = Welcome!: a handy resource guide for marketing your library to Latinos.  Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2005.

Cohen, David and Cohen, Monroe D., with Louis Armstrong Middle School, I.S. 227Q (East Elmhurst, N.Y.)  Resources for valuing diversity : the Louis Armstrong Middle School (I.S.227Q) multicultural collection.  New York, N.Y. : Board of Education of City of New York, c1990.

Cuesta, Yolanda  and Tarin, Patricia.  “Guidelines for Library Service to the Spanish-speaking,” Library Journal (July 1978)  pp. 1350-1355.

Cuesta, Yolanda J.  “From Survival to Sophistication; Hispanic Needs = Library Needs,”  Library Journal  115 no9 (May 15, 1990) pp. 26-28.

Danford, Natalie. “How do you say ‘Growing Pains’ in Spanish?,” Publishers Weekly  252 no3 (January 17, 2005) pp. 28-32.

Diller, J.V. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services.   Boston, MA: Brooks/Cole, 1999.

Diversity in the library: a way of life. (video) Towson, MD: Library Video Network, 2001.

Dyson, Anne Haas and Genishi, Celia.  The need for story:  cultural diversity in classroom and community.  Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.

Flurkey, Alan D. and Meyer, Richard J..  Under the whole language umbrella : many cultures, many voices.  Urbana, Ill.:  National Council of Teachers of English: Bloomington, Ind. : Whole Language Umbrella, c1994.

Gordon, Jack.  Pfeiffer’s classic activities for diversity trainiing [sic].  San Francisco, Calif.: Pfeiffer, c2005.

Guerena, Salvador and Pisano, Vivian M., eds.  Latino Periodicals: a Selection Guide.  Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1998.

Howrey, Sara P.  “De colores: the universal language of bilingual storytime,” American Libraries 34 no9 (October 2003) p. 38ff.

Hutchinson, Hilary Browne.  “The International children’s digital library: a case study in desiging for a multilingual, multicultural, multigenerational audience,” Information Technology and Libraries 24 no1 (March 2005) pp. 4-12.

Kruse, Ginny Moore and Horning, Kathleen T.  Multicultural literature for children and young adults : a selected listing of books, 1980-1990, by and about people of color.  Madison, WI : Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison : Wisconsin Dept. of Public instruction, c1991. 

Lima, Carolyn W.  A to Zoo:  Subject Access to Children’s Picture Books.  Westport, CN: Bowker-Greenwood, 2001.

Novinger, Tracy.  Intercultural communication : a practical guide.  Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001.

O’Mara, Julie. Diversity: activities and training designs. (video) San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer, 1994.

Promis, Patricia and Segura Hoopes, Maria.  Habla Espanol? No, but I Can Try to Help You:  Practical Spanish for the Reference Desk. Chicago:  American Library Association / RUSA, 1991.

Robertson, Deborah A.  Cultural programming for libraries : linking libraries, communities & culture.  Chicago: American Library Association, 2005.

Rochman, Hazel.  Against borders : promoting books for a multicultural world.  Chicago : American Library Association, 1993.

Schon, Isabel.  “From Senor Conejo to ‘El mundo de los magos’: recent books in Spanish for children and adolecscents,” Multicultural Education 11 no4 (Summer 2004) pp. 56-57.

Schon, Isabel.  “Libros de historia en Espanol: recent noteworthy history books in Spanish for children and adolescents,” The History Teacher (Long Beach, CA) 34 no3 (May 2001) pp. 389-93.

Schon, Isabel. “Los ninos y el mundo: children’s books in Spanish from around the world,” The Reading Teacher 54 no7 (April 2001) pp. 692-8.

Schon, Isabel.  “Noteworthy books in Spanish for adolescents,” Voice of Youth Advocates 28 no3 (August 2005) pp. 188-9.

Schon, Isabel.  Recommended books in Spanish for children and young adults 1996 to 1999.  Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2000.

Schon, Isabel.  “Stimulating an appreciation of the arts through noteworthy books in Spanish,” Childhood Education, vol. 73 (1997), pp. 372-4.

Schon, Isabel.  The Best of the Latino heritage: a guide to the best juvenile books about Latino people and cultures.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Schon, Isabel.  [a search in standard periodical indexes will show many other articles she has written with lists of recommended books for Spanish readers]

Soto, Jose.  “21 Cultural Competencies for the 21st Century.”
www.inmotionmagazine.com/soto6.html Published in Motion Magazine April 2, 2001.

Sealy, Steve and Sealy, Chris.  Bridging the digital divide in the Spanish speaking community. (video) Towson, MD: Library Video Network, 2004.

Thomas, Rebecca L.  Connecting cultures: a guide to multicultural literature for children.  New Providence, NJ:  R.R. Bowker, 1996.

Valuing diversity (video).  Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1990. (26 minutes)

Wadham, Tim.  Programming with Latino children’s materials.  New York: Neal-Schuman, 1999.

Webber, Desiree.  Travel the globe : multicultural story times.  Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1998.