Collection Development

Audiovisual Vendors

Américas Book Award for Children and Young Adult Literature – Recognizes U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
Pura Belpré Award – Presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award – Honors authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience

America Reads Spanish – The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) and the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds (FGEE) developed the campaign America Reads Spanish to increase the use and reading of Spanish through the thousands of libraries, schools and book stores of the US.
Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents – Centro Barahona para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Español.
Críticas – Online magazine for English-speaking book professionals dedicated to review literature in Spanish.
Other review journals like Book Links, Booklist, Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, Video Librarian, VOYA, etc., periodically review a few titles in Spanish.
Desde el Sótano – Revista de Librerías El Sótano
Librerías Gandhi
Libros Latinos – Books of Latin America & the Caribbean
TintaFresca.us – Published by PromoLatino Inc.