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SA Reads summer book drive helps ease financial burden for teachers

Teachers pull from book bank to build classroom libraries. San Antonio - Every year, as kids prepare to start a new school year, many of their teachers are starting a new chapter of their own and it can begin with a book.

Santa Maria Public Library awarded bilingual book grant

The California State Library’s Immigrant Alliance Project gave the Santa Maria Public Library System a $7,500 grant to purchase bilingual children’s books for the main library and all branch library locations. The books will feature printed text in both Spanish and English, to help meet the needs of families in various local communities.

GALA Hispanic Theatre 42nd Season Kicks Off with the Infamous Seducer of All Times. José Zorrila DON JUAN TENORIO

Sun, August 13, 2017 06:52 PM
Washington, DC – GALA Hispanic Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of the commissioned adaptation by Nando López of Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorilla. López authored the adaptation of the Helen Hayes Award-winning Yerma. Directed by José Carrasquillo, Don Juan Tenorio is performed in Spanish with English surtitles from September 7 through October 1, 2017

Bilingual program abuzz in San Antonio

The Bee-lingual Bees program is creating buzz with their curriculum allowing parents and children to learn Spanish to encourage multicultural awareness. Their concept is to cultivate social development in children as well as encouraging diversity,.....

Agency Rights Update: Madrid’s CBQ Agencia Literaria

Saying that a good agency’s character is ‘built with many authors, not single ones,’ CBQ’s Claudia Bernaldo di Quiros calls our attention today to five titles making international rights sales.

Get to know this week's List for the week 31 ending on August 6th, 2017

Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 31 of 2017 (week ending 8/06/2017).

Get to know this week's List for the week 30 ending on July 30th, 2017

Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 30 of 2017 (week ending 7/30/2017).

What to read in America?

El País reccomends 24 books recently published in the Americas (Argentina, Colombia, United States, Brazil). The list has been created by the newspaper's media correspondents.

Bilingual babies listen to language

Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers should know that infants growing up bilingual have the learning capacities to make sense of the complexities of two languages just by listening.

Translanguaging Pedagogies for Positive Identities in Two-Way Dual Language Bilingual Education

Research suggests that identity matters for school success and that language and identity are powerfully intertwined. A monolingual solitudes understanding of bilingualism undermines children’s bilingual identities, yet in most bilingual education classrooms,.....

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