✏️✨Now available ✨🍎
Just as promised, you can now enjoy our multimodal reading lists that connect Latinx books and LKBF videos! Valuable content that is ready-made for enriching classroom curricula to support teachers in the classroom. Intended to give educators a great experience.
#LKBF25

🎉📚Now available📚 🎉
The full content of our 2025 festival is now available for all your classroom needs. Now with an easy and convenient format that allows you to select content by age and panel type. Make sure to check it out! Link in bio. 🔗

lkbf2025 #EducatorResources #LKBF25

📚Celebrate 25 years of Esperanza Rising with us and join author Pam Munoz Ryan and educator Dr. Tracy Torres as they discuss the impact and lessons that still resonate Today. Link in bio 🔗 AVAILABLE NOW!

#LKBF25 #LatinxKidLit #HispanicHeritageMonth #EducatorResources

✏️We invite all Teachers and Educators to join us this September 19 at 12 pm EST for a YouTube LIVE Discussion on how to integrate play and Imagination in the classroom with Yuyi Morales. Moderated by Lorena German. Ideal for 4-7 age educators.
#LKBF25 #HispanicHeritageMonth #EducatorResources

✨️📚 Don't miss this event TODAY! ✨️📚

Learn about the process of publishing as these talented authors discuss the road map to their own personal success navigating publishing their first book.
You can still sign up TODAY for a small fee that contributes to festival initiatives!

#lkbf25

📚✨ The @ncte.org Annual Convention is back—bringing together educators, authors, and leaders to celebrate and strengthen literacy education.

Happening in Denver, CO. Don’t miss your chance to connect & learn! bit.ly/4ftGzuF

#NCTE25 #EnglishLanguageArts #LKBF25

Nurturing the Love for Reading and Heart of the Writer Tiana Silvas, a sixth-grade English Language Arts educator who has taught in New York City Public Schools for almost two decades, will discuss how she builds community in the classroom and shapes authentic spaces for students to feel liberated to write ...

Did you miss our Educators’ Night session at the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival? Watch the recording with ELA teacher Tiana Silvas for classroom strategies and ideas for applying #NCTE’s Students’ Right to Write Position Statement. https://www.youtube.com/live/11DdLOeEWow

#LKBF25

Big thanks to @randomhousekids + @getunderlined for supporting #LKBF25 and publishing incredible Latinx voices like @andreabeatrizarango, @kvalenti_author, @mayra.cuevas, @thejoepi & @vanessaltorreswrites! ✨📚

So excited to be part of the 2025 @latinxkidlitbf.bsky.social!

🎉 Free + virtual sessions
📚 Shorter, classroom-ready content
🗓️ Launching Sept. 1—just in time for Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month prep!
See the schedule: latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/2025-festival
#LatinxKidLit #LKBF25

Here's the poster for our workshop! It'll be used in classrooms around America to help cool kids make comics. #LKBF25

More details: latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/2025-festival

⚡️Full Schedule Release ⚡️ Happening tomorrow Friday, August 15 on our website.

latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/2025-festiva...

Prepare and plan ahead your watchlist so you don’t miss your favorite authors and events!

#LKBF25

✨Sponsor message✨
Thank you Society of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators for your support #sbcwi. We are honored to partner with you! 📚💕
#LKBF25

📚 Back-to-school PD!
Sept. 2 | 7pm ET
Teaching Latinx History Year Round — Emma Otheguy, José Iriarte, Pablo Leon & Brenda Perez Mendoza share strategies to weave Latinx history into your curriculum all year.
$20—supports #LKBF25!
🔗 latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/events/2025/...

✨Sponsor message✨
Thank you Macmillan Publishers for your support and kind words.
#LKBF25

📚✨ Festival Highlight ✨📚
Join us LIVE on Sept 19 at 10AM ET!
Chiquis (@chiquis) & Mayra Cuevas (@mayra.cuevas) share stories of love, music & family.
📺 Don’t miss it!
#LatinxKidLitBooks #LKBF25

Coming Sept. 19!
Award-winning author/illustrator Yuyi Morales joins the LKBF for a live how stories can shape a more just and joyful world and her latest book Little Rebels
Moderator: Educator Lorena Germán.
👀 on schedule roll out: latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/2025-festival
#LKBF25

Get ready to kick off the 2025 festival early 🎉📚 Join us for a LIVE event: Nurturing the Love for Reading and Heart of the Writer with Tiana Livas brought to us by @ncte.org
⚡️August 6 at 7:00 p.m. ET ⚡️

Click to get notified: latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/events/2025/...

#latinxkidlit #lkbf25

Join us virtually at #LKBF25 for an #NCTE -sponsored Educators’ Night session with longtime ELA teacher Tiana Silvas to discuss building community and shaping authentic spaces for writing in the classroom.

Watch the session live on August 6 at 7 p.m. ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Dd...

We’re thrilled to be named a 2025 Best Digital Tool for Teaching & Learning by AASL!

The Latinx Kidlit Book Festival is proud to connect students with Latinx stories that inspire, educate & empower. www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

#ALAAC25 #LatinxKidLit #SchoolLibraries #LKBF25

✨ ¡Bienvenidos! ✨ @maltaindiapr we are grateful for your support as our sponsor this 2025! #lkbf25

2 Days Left! Latinx Kidlit Book Festival Auction ends Feb 14! Support literacy for all and help restock LA schools affected by the fires. bit.ly/lkbfauction25

#lkbf25

I donated a virtual school visit for the #lkbf25 Publishing Auction! Proceeds benefit the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, a 501(c)3 nonprofit literacy org. A portion will also go toward providing new books for schools impacted by the LA fires. The auction closes this Friday! bit.ly/lkbfauction25

Auction Items — Latinx Kidlit Book Festival: LKBF Fundraising Auction Partially Compatible: The equipment you’re using is compatible with ReadySetAuction, but won’t provide the best possible experience. You might fare better with a different device or Shared Bidding…

It's that time again! Peruse and bid on the countless items at the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival auction. All proceeds go towards making this book festival happen and, for this year, providing new books for schools impacted by the LA fires.

Ends on Valentines Day! bit.ly/lkbfauction25

#lkbf25

The #lkbf25 Publishing Auction is LIVE! Auction proceeds benefit the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, a 501(c)3 nonprofit literacy organization. In addition, a portion of the proceeds will go toward providing new books for schools impacted by the Los Angeles fires.
You can bid on some amazing items!

The #lkbf25 Publishing Auction is LIVE! Auction proceeds benefit the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, a 501(c)3 nonprofit literacy organization. A portion of the proceeds will also go toward providing new books for schools impacted by the Los Angeles fires: bit.ly/lkbfauction25.

The #lkbf25 Publishing Auction is LIVE! You can bid on some amazing items, including the below from me!

⭐️A PB manuscript critique package that includes

✨MS critique
✨30-min AMA
✨signed copy of Squawk of Spanish

The auction closes February 14th so get your bid in now! bit.ly/lkbfauction25

photo of Alexandra Villasante on green background with floral designs and the details of the Live Auction

The #lkbf25 Auction is LIVE! Proceeds benefit the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival - a portion of the proceeds will go toward providing new books for schools impacted by the LA fires.

⭐️ An Annotated and signed ARC of my upcoming YA FIREBLOOMS

⭐️ A Virtual School or Book Club Visit

bit.ly/lkbfauction25

The #lkbf25 Publishing Auction is LIVE from Feb 1 to Feb 14! Auction proceeds benefit the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, a 501(c)3 nonprofit literacy organization. A portion of the proceeds will go toward providing new books for schools impacted by the Los Angeles fires.

bit.ly/lkbfauction25