Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Children’s Books

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with these great children’s selections! For more titles that highlight Hispanic and Latine authors and stories, check out what’s available in our catalog as well as our Libby collection.

Additionally, the official National Hispanic Heritage Month website has a page designed for parents and educators filled with resources from National Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others. 


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The New Friend Fix

Catalina is excited to find out a new student, Esmeralda, has joined her third-grade class at Valle Grande Elementary School. But despite Catalina’s attempts to introduce herself, Esme won’t talk to anyone but her own cousin, Jazmín. Could Jazmín be keeping Esme from making new friends? According to Catalina’s frenemy Pablo, it’s just like what happened to the secret princess in the telenovela hit The Hidden Crown! With Tía Abuela’s magical sewing kit, Catalina sets out to create a disguise to unravel the mystery. 



One Is a Piñata: A Book of Numbers

In rhyming text, Hispanic children count the things, like piñatas and maracas, that can be seen in their neighborhood.   

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla. 


Where Are You From?

When a young girl is asked where she’s from—where she’s really from—she’s no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn’t quite give her the answer she expects. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.