The organizers of the the largest Hispanic book fair in the U.S. poised to break attendance records. The event, May 17-19 in Los Angeles, California, will be a homage to Carlos Fuentes, world-renowned Mexican author, reports EON.

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 14 of 2013 (week ending 4/7/2013).

The humanist, writer and economist died Monday in Madrid. The Latin Times publishes five things to know about Sampedro, who once said “the oldest I get, the more revolucionary I am.”

Canal de Lector (reader's channel) is an effort of Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez to promote reading for the youth. The channel's goal is to serve as a communication channel for Spanish and American professionals that share the Spanish language at a time when it is crucial to put ideas together and build knowledge through debate.

In it's section “By the book”, the newspaper asked the Chilean author all kind of questions: from the last good book she read to what author, dead of alive, she would like to meet. Short questions and answers that revealed the personality, and a couple of intimate details, of Ms. Allende.

The panel is organized and moderated by Jo Labanyi (Director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU) with the participation of academic specialists in Federico García Lorca’s work Antonio Monegal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY Graduate Center), Andrés Soria (Universidad de Granada) and Jonathan Mayhew (University of Kansas).

SpainEDU was developed by ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones and the association EDUESPAÑA, aimed at promoting Spanish international education in the United States, Spanish language courses, study abroad programs and educational opportunities in Spain for international students.

This month's catalog includes releases from Anaya Group, both print and digital. It also has “Agenda”, with upcomong events, and “Agenda gráfica”, a section featuring Anaya's recent events.

The first year of the Dual Language Immersion program at Hackett and Robinson Elementary schools has been a success, and the bilingual kindergarten students will move on to the first grade, reports Beloit Connection.

Publishers Weekly released this piece on the still young, but popular book fair. Backed by Guadalajara International Book Fair and the University of Guadalajara in Los Angeles, this event seeks to promote not only books but also reading and Latino culture in general.