Latinx KidLit Book Festival
The Latinx KidLit Book Festival was created in 2020 during the COVID pandemic by members of Las Musas Books. Their purpose is to connect Latinx authors and illustrators with readers and educators. Since then, the festival has continued to grow, fostering a love of story and literacy as well as increasing empathy and conversation among educators, students, and book lovers while uplifting the voices of Latinx kidlit book creators.
The 2025 Festival launches September 1st, two weeks before Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, and incorporates educators’ voices into pre-recorded sessions and age-appropriate lengths for easy classroom integration.
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Sessions can be streamed into the classroom or library and shared with students using an educator’s account. Through live programming sessions, classrooms can engage with festival authors and illustrators using the live-chat option. All video content is recorded and available for replay after the festival.
Watch past and present Latinx KidLit Book Festival programming on the Festival’s YouTube channel. Links can also be found on each individual event in the Festival’s schedule page.
A few highlights
- 1 Sept award-winning author Ruth Behar discusses her Newbery Honor winning book, Across So Many Seas with #FReadom Fighters co-founder and educator, Becky Calzada.
- 15 Sept Pam Muñoz Ryan and educator Dr. Tracey Flores celebrate 25 years of Esperanza Rising by reflecting on the book’s origins and breakingdown lessons and questions that resonate today.
- 19 Sept Join live as Yuyi Morales takes us on a journey through imagination, play, and her latest book Little Rebels/Peques rebeldes. Moderated by educator Lorena Germán.
- Craft, storytime, and drawing workshops.
- Educator resources, including professional development sessions.
Some sessions are live, others are pre-recorded. A few charge a nominal fee to support the programming.
Be sure to check out the schedule.
Follow on IG: https://www.instagram.com/latinxkidlitbf/
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About Edith Campbell
Edith Campbell is Librarian in the Cunningham Memorial Library at Indiana State University. She is a member of WeAreKidlit Collective, and Black Cotton Reviewers. Edith has served on selection committees for the YALSA Printz Award, ALSC Sibert Informational Text Award, ALAN Walden Book Award, the Walter Award, ALSC Legacy Award, and ALAN Nielsen Donelson Award. She is currently a member of ALA, BCALA, NCTE NCTE/ALAN, REFORMA, YALSA and ALSC. Edith has blogged to promote literacy and social justice in young adult literature at Cotton Quilt Edi since 2006. She is a mother, grandmother, gardener and quilter.
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