🎉Please welcome Chronicle Kids to the 2026 festival! Thank you so much for the support! 🎉🥳📚
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🎉We're excited to welcome back the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group for the 2026 festival! Thank you for your continued support 🎉📚✨
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Signing advanced copies of my upcoming illustrated picture book, ¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles, with author and MLB journalist Nathalie Alonso at Astra Books in NYC tinyurl.com/Viva-Valenzu... #DodgerNation #baseball #picturebooks #picturebookbiographies #latinxkidlit
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Screenshot Publishers Marketplace: Children's Picture Book Fiction Vicky Weber's THE LEGEND OF COQUI, THE SECRET OF THE HUMMINGBIRD, and THE SECRET OF THE MIRACLE OF SALOME, in the Taino Tales series, pitched as retellings of Taino folklore, to Rebekah Borucki at Wheat Penny Press, for publication in spring 2026, by Amy Giuffrida at Belcastro Agency.
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📚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
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💫 Huge thanks to @simonkids & Simon & @simonteen Publishing for championing Latinx stories and voices! We’re so proud to celebrate this year’s incredible lineup of authors together at the #LatinxKidLit Book Festival.
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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
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Coming Sept. 1: A classroom-ready writing workshop with authors Vanessa Montalban & Cassandra Ramos-Gomez!
✏️ Great for creative classrooms and budding storytellers
One of many new on-demand sessions from this year’s festival!
#LatinxKidlit #WritingWorkshop #KidLit #TeacherResources #MGFiction
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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
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✨📚Welcome @ncte.org as a sponsor for this year’s festival! ✨📚
We are so excited to partner with them in an educator event to kick off the 2025 festival early. 🎉
Stay tuned for announcements and updates.
#latinxkidlitbooks #latinxkidlit
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publishers marketplace Deal Report Category: Children's: Picture Book Fiction July 16, 2025 KINDNESS GLOWS IN THE DARK By Gama Valle, Mrinali Alvarez Astacio Imprint: Barefoot Books Author of PROHIBIDO LLORAR Gama Valle's KINDNESS GLOWS IN THE DARK, set in rural Puerto Rico, where a girl discovers a boy is stealing food from her family's garden and then loses his trust, and the friends must learn empathy and forgiveness to heal their friendship and their community, illustrated by Mrinali Alvarez Astacio, to Autumn Allen at Barefoot Books, with Bree Reyes editing, for publication in spring 2026, by Leah Pierre at Ladderbird Literary Agency for the author, and by Emily Keyes at Keyes Agency for the illustrator (world).
👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉 @gamavalle.com !
#kidlit #puertorico #latinxkidlit
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vibin' 😎 or cheesin' 😁 you decide!
Whichever it is, we are bringing it back in 2025! Three months and two days to goooooooo
#lkbfstorytellers25 #writinglife #booksinstagram #latinxbooks #latinxauthors #latinxwriters #latinxkidlit #latinxreads #booksignings #latinxstories #latinxbookstagramtour
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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
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The 2025 Latinx Kidlit Book Festival drops Sept 1—with an updated educator-friendly format!
📅 All content at once
🎥 Pre-recorded sessions
🆓 Free + virtual
Perfect for planning Hispanic Heritage Month!
🔗 latinxkidlitbookfestival.org/about
#LatinxKidLit #blueskyteachers #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Free learning opp this Thursday! 📚
Join @nctegram + Dr. Carla España (LKBF Ed Council) for insights on teaching Latinx middle grade readers & writers.
🔗 To register visit: ncte.org/dreaming-wit...
#LatinxKidLit #MakersInTheMiddle
#makersinthemiddle
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☕️ Hosting a Cafecito during #ALAAC25 in Philly!
Come through for community & conversation w/ librarians, educators & Latinx creators.
🗓️ Sat, June 28 | 9–10:30 AM
📍 Julia de Burgos Bookstore
📖 Reading w/ Jackie Morera at 10:30!
🔗 RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#LatinxKidLit
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"STAFF PICKS: Currently reading Rex Ogle, Meg Medina, @apalessandri.bsky.social 📚✨
What Latinx kidlit book are you reading? What’s on your TBR? Share in the comments!
Need ideas? Our database is packed with amazing reads buff.ly/pvDBz5q
#LatinxKidLit
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We want to thank our sponsor @mackidsbooks.bsky.social for supporting our festival and the important work we do to create space for diverse voices in children's literature.
We appreciate your continued support.
#kidlitfestival #kidlit #latinxwriters #latinxkidlit #latinxkidlitfestival
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🌟 I’m honored to be a MENTOR for the 2025 Las Musas Books Mentorship Program. If you’re an aspiring Latinx writer learn more at lasmusasbooks.com/hermanas.
🗓 The application period is from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28th. #LasMusasBooks #HermanasMentorship #LatinxKidLit #AuthorMentor
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Honored that Cómo se come un mango, illustrated by Juliana Perdomo & published by Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, was named one of the Best Books in Spanish for 2025 by @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social!
Special thanks to Ana Izquierdo for her brilliant translation!
#LatinxKidLit #KidLit
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Happy Book Birthday to All the Love Under the Vast Sky. This book contains 12 short stories in verse by bestselling & award-winning authors that explore the highs & lows of love –romantic, platonic, familial, & self-love. Congrats @margaritaengle.bsky.social @apalessandri.bsky.social
#latinxkidlit
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A Happy Book Birthday to @lourdesheuer.bsky.social on the second book in her young
chapter book series.The Monster Storm (Seashell Key #2) is perfect for fans of Princess in Black and Mercy Watson—about a diverse community
of kids living in a beautiful seaside town!
#lasmusasbooks
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Did you know? The 2025 Hermanas Mentorship Program is opening SOON!
This 6-month mentorship will run from April 1st to September 30th.
Learn more at Lasmusasbooks.com/mentorship
#lasmusasbooks #writingmentorship #latinxkidlit #writingcommunity #writingmentorship #HermanasMentorship
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Mark your calendars mi Gente!!! I'll see you at @lkbfstorytellers this upcoming September 12 & 13, 2025 at Scholastic. Nos vemos pronto.
#latinxbooks #latinxauthors #latinxwriters #latinxkidlit #latinxreads #booksignings #latinxstories #writingcommunity #writershelpingwriters #LKBFStorytellers24
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I followed so many great new authors from the #LatinxKidLit Sp that now I’m overwhelmed searching for books for my 4yr old Nica Rican (🇳🇮🇵🇷) son. I want to share stories about our Latine side as we as our Black & Afro sides. It’s #goodstress since I’m finding 📚 for when he’s older and for me!
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In case any Latinx Kids' authors need a lift, all five of the books I bought in New Mexico were by Latinx authors. Okay, I know ONLY 5, but there are lots of me out there. Please keep on! #LatinxKidLit #KidLit
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Great starter pack! #LatinxKidLit
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