Black History Month Spotlight: Celebrating Children’s Author…

Eric Velasquez is an Afro-Latino author and illustrator from Harlem who has won multiple awards and illustrated over 30 children’s books. Some of his works that are featured by Booklandia include: Schomburg: El Hombre que Creó una Biblioteca, Pulpo Guisado

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Fe’s Favorite Bilingual and Spanish Books​

In “Raising a Bilingual Child by Barbara Zurer Pearson,” Pearson explains why media such as books are important in language acquisition. Pearson states, “Children are more excited to remember what Winnie the Pooh says and sings than routine admonitions to

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Bilingual Footprints

Similar to many other afro-Panamanians, my family immigrated from Jamaica to Panama in order to work on the Panama Canal. Later they came to the United States to settle. As a result, my family has three generations of bilinguals (Spanish/English)

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