Barnes & Noble will host a new monthly Spanish-language Storytime at select stores across the country starting in May with a reading of “¡Te lo regalo!” (You Can Have It!) by Gabriela Keselman, published by Cuento de Luz. Customers can listen to stories read in Spanish and enjoy word practice and fun activities.
The Mexican journalist and author is the fourth woman to receive the prestigious award. In the ceremony, she recalled how Gabriel García Márquez “gave wings to Latin America.”
Authors signing copies of their books, ceremonies to remember the great ones, like Cervantes, and adults and children celebrating a day dedicated to books.
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 16 of 2014 (week ending 4/20/2014).
Back in 1989, Latin American Book Source, Inc started distributing books in Spanish in the US. Since then, it had expanded its services from academic university libraries to public libraries. In 2007 the company started supplying books in Spanish to amazon.com. Its CEO and founder Edgardo Moctezuma talked to ARS about the company, its focus, the market, and the future of digital and print-on-demand books.
Many cities around the world are celebrating books. Don't be surprised if someone in the streets give you one, just for free, just for the pleasure of reading.
The distributor has shared with us their current eNewsletter with its latest book releases for ages 0 – 14.
The Chicago branch of Instituto Cervantes has several activities through the day to commemorate World Book Night Book, on April 23rd. From readings and story telling to exhibitions and workshops, even roses for those who check out books from their library that day.
Multimedia specials published by the digital edition of newspapers around the world, pay tribute to Colombian writer and nobel prized laureate García Marquez, who died last Thursday.
John Benson writes a column on the importance of dual language immersion programs, its benefits and the cracks in the anti-bilingual wall in terms of K-12 education with California legislators currently debating the elimination of Prop 227, which in 1998 effectively ended bilingual education in that state.
