Hispanic/Latin@

Title Author Illustrator ISB # and Copyright

Description

When Christmas Feels Like Home

Gretchen Griffith

Carolina Farias

978-0-8075-8872-7

Copyright 2013

A young boy named Ed-uardo moves from a small village in his home country to a new bigger town in the U.S. Eduardo worries that he will not fit into his new town and everything will be differ-ent. It is at first but then he sees that every-thing can be fun if he gives it chance, but one thing is missing which is his family Christmas. Soon though throughout all the changes Eduardo sees that it isn’t the place the makes the holi-day special but the traditions

and those around you. Spanish is used for some words throughout the text, which adds to the story.

Question Yes No N/A Comments

Does the illustrator use variation among the characters? i:e are they different sizes, heights, facial features, clothing?

X

Are women shown in an active roles?

X

Are other culturally and linguistically diverse groups represented in non- stereotypical roles? (i:e, Asian American/ Pa-cific Islander, Native American/ American In-dian, African American/Black, Latino/Latina/

X

Are male characters rep-resented having emotions and feelings?

X

Is the setting relevant to todays time period?

X

Is there diversity de-picted throughout the book?

X

Are people with visible physical disabilities shown in active roles?

X

Does the author authen-tically represent the cul-tural he or she is writing about?

X

Is the book relevant to to-day’s time? i:e is the copyright from at least the past 10 years?

X

Do the characters relate to students in the class-room?

X

Does the storyline allow for students to form a personal connection?

X

Are multiple types of families depicted?

X

Is native language of cul-tural represented used?

X

Would I use this book in the classroom?

X Yes I would use this book. This book shows what it is like when someone moves and is unsure how life will ever be normal again. It also uses some Spanish which may provide ELL students with an opportunity to make con-nections to the text.

Title Author Illustra-tor

ISB # Description

Kitchen Dance Maurie Maning

Maurie Maning

13-978-0618-99110-5

Copyright: 2008

A little boy and little girl hear a strange noise in their house at. They go down to their kitchen to see what it is. The kids see their par-ents dancing around the kitchen, as they do the dishes. The kids try to be quite so their parents don’t see them. All of sudden their parents see them and they all join in the kitchen and dance. The kids get sleepy and their parents carry them upstairs to bed.

Question Yes No N/A Comments

Does the illustrator use variation among the characters? i:e are they

X

different sizes, heights, facial features, clothing?

Are women shown in an active roles?

X

Are culturally and lin-guistically diverse groups represented in non- stereotypical roles? (i:e, Asian American/ Pacific Islander, Native Ameri-can/ American Indian, African American/Black, Latino/Latina/

X

Are male characters rep-resented having emotions and feelings?

X

Is the setting relevant to todays time period?

X

Is there diversity de-picted throughout the book?

X

Are people with visible physical disabilities shown in active roles?

X

Does the author authen-tically represent the cul-tural he or she is writing about?

Is the book relevant to to-day’s time? i:e is the copyright from at least

X

the past 10 years?

Do the characters relate to students in the class-room?

X

Does the storyline allow for students to form a personal connection?

X

Are multiple types of families depicted?

X

Is native language of cul-tural represented used?

X

Would I use this book in the classroom?

X Yes I would. This book shows the joy of a fam-ily and it also shows a mom and dad both do-ing chores that some would view as “women’s work” It also has some Spanish used throughout the text which could make the text easier to un-derstand for ELL stu-dents.

Title Author Illustra-tor

ISB # Copyright Description

Growing Up With Tamales

Gwendolyn Zepeda

April Ward

9781558854932

Copyright 2008

Two sisters get to help make tamales for Christmas. The younger sister is jeal-ous that her older sister gets to do jobs that she doesn’t. Each year is the same the older sister has new jobs helping make tamales while the younger sis-ter does the older sisters old jobs. As the sisters grow older the younger sister dreams of owning her own business making tamales, and then she will make and de-liver them herself

Question Yes No N/A Comments

Does the illustrator use variation among the characters? i:e are they different sizes, heights, facial features, clothing?

X

Are women shown in an active roles?

X

Are culturally and lin-guistically diverse groups represented in non- stereotypical roles? (i:e, Asian American/ Pacific Islander, Native Ameri-can/ American Indian, African American/Black, Latino/Latina/

X

Are male characters rep-resented having emotions and feelings?

X

Is the setting relevant to todays time period?

X

Is there diversity de-picted throughout the book?

X

Are people with visible physical disabilities shown in active roles?

X

Does the author authen-tically represent the cul-tural he or she is writing about?

X

Is the book relevant to to- X

day’s time? i:e is the copyright from at least the past 10 years?

Do the characters relate to students in the class-room?

X

Does the storyline allow for students to form a personal connection?

X

Are multiple types of families depicted?

X

Is the book bilanguage? X

Would I use this book in the classroom?

X Yes I would it shows sis-ters in a way that many students may connect with, and it also talks about a tradition that some Latino/a His-panic fami-lies have.

Title Author Illustra-tor

ISB # Copy 2006 Description

Whoever You Are Mem Fox Leslie Staub

0152007873Copyright 2006

The book outlines how people are all the same. Also the book illus-trates how all over the world there is someone who in some way is just like you. Many cul-tures are shown throughout the story. People are doing tradi-tional tasks from their cultures, but are do not have any modern roles.

Question Yes No N/A Comments

Does the illustrator use variation among the characters? i:e are they different sizes, heights,

X

facial features, clothing?

Are women shown in an active roles?

X

Are culturally and lin-guistically diverse groups represented in non- stereotypical roles? (i:e, Asian American/ Pacific Islander, Native Ameri-can/ American Indian, African American/Black, Latino/Latina/

X

Are male characters rep-resented having emotions and feelings?

X

Is the setting relevant to todays time period?

X

Is there diversity de-picted throughout the book?

X

Are people with visible physical disabilities shown in active roles?

X

Does the author authen-tically represent the cul-tural he or she is writing about?

X

Is the book relevant to to-day’s time? i:e is the copyright from at least the past 10 years?

X

Do the characters relate to students in the class-room?

X

Does the storyline allow for students to form a personal connection?

X

Are multiple types of families depicted?

X

Is the book bilanguage? X

Would I use this book in the classroom?

X No I would not use this book. I would not use this book because it fo-cuses on how we are all the same.I want my students to celebrate their differ-ences more then I want them to see how they are all the same. Also the book show characters in stereotypical roles, and makes as-sumptions about daily life in certain cultures