The LBBC's 2009 Summer Reading List

El verano is right around the corner and eager (or desperate?) parents are looking for activities to preoccupy their niños. We are very busy little bees here at the LBBC and are working on a number of projects to help our readers.


However, we'd like your help, too. While you and your children are having fun this summer, we'd love it if you would submit a short description of any educational activities promoting literacy in English or Spanish that your family does. Include a few pictures and we'll give you your own guest post! Simply email your suggestions or a description of your activity to us at admin at latinbabyusa dot com and you'll be entered to win a free T-shirt from Latin Baby - you pick the design and the size.


Now to start the summer off on the right foot, here is the official LBBC 2009 Summer Reading List. If you'd prefer to download your own copy, click here. All the titles listed below are available in our on-line bookshop. Or stop by your local library and request them!

Summer Reading List

Newborn to 2 years
Quinito, Day and Night/Quinito, día y noche by Ina Cumpiano. Children’s Book Press, 2008
I am Latino: The Beauty in Me by Sandra Pinkney. Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007.
Te Amo, Sol Te Amo, Luna by Karen Pandell. Putnam Juvenile, 2003.
My Family and I/Mi familia y yo by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza. Me+Mi Publishing, 2007.

2 to 6 yrs
My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito by Amada Irma Perez. Children’s Book Press, 2008
Gathering the Sun: an Alphabet in Spanish and English by Alma Flor Ada. Rayo, 2001.
Pelé:King of Soccer/Pelé: El rey del fútbol by Monica Brown. Rayo, 2008.
Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas by Juan Felipe Herrera. Children’s Book Press, 2001
Playing Loteria/El juego de la loteria by René Colato Lainez. Luna Rising, 2009.
Señor Cat’s Romance by Lucía M. González. Scholastic, 2001.
My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada. Aladdin, 1995.
A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Ines by Pat Mora. Kopf Books For Young Readers, 2002.
Dream Carver by Diana Cohn. Chronicle Books, 2002.
The Santero's Miracle: A Bilingual Story by Rudolfo Anaya. University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Young Adults
Pinta el viento by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Scholastic en Español, 2008.
La casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Vintage, 1994.
The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans by Carmen Tafolla. Wings Press, 2008.
Animal Poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu by Francisco X. Alarcón. Children’s Book Press, 2008
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. Grand Central Publishing, 1999.
The Smell of Old Lady Perfume by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez. Cinco Puntos Press, 2008.


~Monica