Comments on: Building Collections and Connections: A Taste of Latino Culture | Libro por libro

By: Rosalinda Aguirre

Rosalinda Aguirre — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:06:27 +0000

Fantastic, and Tim is in our region! I will be ordering his publications – Programming with Latino Children’s Materials: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians (1999) and Libros Esenciales: Building, Marketing, and Programming a Core Collection of Spanish Language Children’s Materials (2006, both Neal-Schuman). Thank you.

By: Jane LeBlanc

Jane LeBlanc — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:51:13 +0000

I am thrilled to see this new approach for spanish/bilingual literature. I wonder if you could broaden the focus to include titles for high school English students who typically begin their first spanish class in 9th grade. What materials can we provide to these new learners, who are older and may not be interested in the easier books, even though that is the level they can read…. Is there material for this group? Thanks for always being a step ahead…

By: Desiree Fairooz

Desiree Fairooz — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:56:39 +0000

Thanks SLJ for providing a forum and Tim’s blog. I’d love to see how we can encourage each other in our bilingual programming and also give publishers ideas for themes and stories we want to see.
I’d love to find Bolivian, Colombian and Peruvian folktales for children. I haven’t found anything published in either language for children.

Also, needed are picture books that provide rhythm and rhyme in Spanish for our youngest, Babies, Prek and Kinder kids. Predictable stories like Denise Fleming’s Mama Cat, Beetle Bop, or Linda Sue Park’s Bee Bim Bop. These are great examples of rhythm and rhyme but of course I’m not expecting translations to work. No, I’m asking for authors and publishers for authentic rhythm and rhyme. Maybe Jorge Argueta could take his poetry like “sopa de frijoles” and make a picture book out of it. Hmm, makes me hungry!

By: Shari Shaw

Shari Shaw — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:27:45 +0000

Tim, this is the column I have been longing for! Please know that you are providing such an important service to librarians and teachers who want the best of the best for their students! I look forward to following your column! Thanks, Shari Shaw, Library Media Specialist, Livonia, MI.

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World Wide Web: SLJ’s Libro por Libro (Book by Book) | Vamos a Leer — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:11:50 +0000

[...] post today highlights another great blog sponsored by one of our favorite resources, the School Library Journal. Libro por Libro (Book by Book) is a new column broaching similar topics as our blog: Spanish and bi-lingual education for young [...]

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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:21:18 +0000

[...] get guidance on how to collect Spanish-language titles and program with them effectively in our new “Libro por libro” series by Tim Wadham, and reflect on bringing parents up to speed on Common Core. And be on the [...]

By: Samantha R. Vamos

Samantha R. Vamos — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:28:51 +0000

What a great new column. Congratulations. Delighted to read it and see “The Cazuela That The Farm Maiden Stirred” here as well. Thank you. All best, Samantha Vamos