The Miami Book Fair International is one of the largest literary gatherings in the country. Last year, more than 200,000 attended the events featuring who’s who of authors. In an interview with Ocean Drive Magazine, Tom Healy, the fair’s new director, has a message for those eagerly anticipating the 31st edition of the fair: You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Considered for some the best Mexican writer, Boullosa talks to El País about her books her background as a poet, what books seduce her, why now days is important being a fast selling author, and why she is not one of them.
Promotores is a home visitation program that El Sol Neighborhood Education Center in Riverside County in California offers to promote early learning and to help increase children’s social, emotional and language development.
Featuring the publisher's latest print and digital releases, the November/December catalog also includes Biblioteca Digital and the special section “Un libro, un regalo” (One Book, One Gift,) with lots of gift ideas.
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 43 of 2014 (week ending 10/26/2014).
Irma De La Guardia, a third-grade dual language teacher at Withers, was selected as 2014 Bilingual Education Teacher of the Year.
Centro Cultural Español Miami pays tribute to a classic of Spanish literature. “One Hundred Years of Platero y yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez”, will take place this Friday, October 31st, 8 p.m. at the center. Admission is free.
The Washington Post publishes this interesting analysis by Claire Bowern on the public debate about bilingual education, its two basic opposing views and the value of bilingualism for all students.
The ceremony of the prestigious awards, held last Friday, was special for two reasons: it was the first for the new King and Queen of Spain, and the last with the name Príncipe de Asturias. From now on, there will call Princesa.
Collinswood Language Academy, a K-8 dual-language school in Charlotte, students produced some of the highest math achievement scores in their school district, even though they learn all their math in Spanish, and take North Carolina's annual end-of-grade math exams in English. Their success is inspiring a push to create more such programs statewide.
