A Mirror Into Hispanic Experiences Catalog

Maomao’s father goes to work all year long. He builds houses far away from the city and he only returns for the Chinese New Year celebration. His f...

Celia is like other girls her age: she’s happy, she likes to have friends, and loves to learn and get to know new places. However, she has somethi...

When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Publ...

Carmen, Marcelino, Lupita, and Martín live in different countries of Latin America. Through verses and illustrations, they hold us by the hand and ...

Nothing makes Sierra happy like soccer, but nothing makes her sad like soccer, because her auntie can't take time off from work for soccer games. S...

This wonderful book filled with poetry invites us to Balam and Lluvia's house to get to know them, and the story behind every aspect of the house ...

On the first day of school, Chepito goes out to play in the street. He meets several people from his neighborhood: the man who reads the newspaper,...

This is the story of a treasure thought to be lost in a batch of tamales; of a desperate and funny attempt by Maria and her cousins to eat their wa...

It was Danilito's first day in America. His family has just made a long, exhausting move from the Caribbean to New York City. The ocean and the pal...

Sometimes, when we finally take the plunge, incredible things happen. There will be times when you enter a place, and you don't see anyone like you...

If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? As ...

In the town of Palenque, hardly anyone can read. Mr. Velandia, the shop owner, is one of the few who knows how. When Gina begins to receive letters...

Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothi...

The sun lights the day and the moon lights the night, and morning seldom breaks to find them both up in the sky. But when the moon does stay up pas...

Set in an indigenous Mixtec village in the artist’s own Oaxaca, Mexico, the story involves an evil healer, a good healer and his extraordinary feli...

Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn’t know coffee beans about love and marriage. That’s where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucara...

Amelia hates traveling along the roads around her, until one day, she discovers an "accidental road” with a warm and comforting discovery at its en...

When the Patiño family moves from Mexico to the United States, Ana and her parents have to make adjustments. Ana quickly learns to fit in at school...

In this story set in rural Mexico, a young girl named Rosalinda awakens one night to find that a Night Man has taken the lemons from her beloved tr...

Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy fields and...

Every Sunday, the boy and his father go to sell their harvest. The market bustles with sounds, colors and characters: Patrocinio, the musician, or ...

Finders keepers, right? When Ruben picks up someone’s lost money, he finds out how hard it can be to do the right thing. Ruben feels like he is th...

The day of the big swim meet has finally arrived, and Jessenia is excited, but a bit worried too. It s her first meet away from home, and the other...

Estela, a young Mexican-American girl who has been saving up her money all year to pay for folklore dance lessons, is still short ten dollars, but ...