Elisa Amado Archives

Five More to Go: Shing Yin Khor’s The American Dream? [in The Booklist Reader]

The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Shing Yin Khor Malaysia-born, LA-dwelling Shing Yin Khor introduces the “two Americas” that were their obsessions growing up: a Los Angeles “full of beautiful people and sunlight and...

Manuelito by Elisa Amado, illustrated by Abraham Urias [in Booklist]

08 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Mexican, Mexican American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Guatemalan-born Canadian author Elisa Amado (What Are You Doing? 2011) “has known many people whose lives have been disrupted, if not destroyed, by the conflicts that have occurred [in Guatemala] since the 1950s,” her author’s bio reveals. That violence continues in the Northern Triangle of Central America...

Help Young Readers Understand the Refugee Experience with Picture Books [in The Booklist Reader]

13 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Arab, Arab American, Australian, Bilingual, Biography, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Iraqi, Korean American, Latin American, Lists, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Syrian, Translation, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, Young Adult Readers

This is the first in a two-part series of recommended books for youth about the refugee experience. For a list of middle grade and YA titles, click here. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the United Nations Refugee Agency,...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng’s Two White Rabbits

26 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng, translated by Elisa Amado

21 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Translation

A young girl and her father are traveling, with little more than a backpack each. She counts what she sees to pass the time: cows, hens, a bored donkey, the clouds ...

I dreamt … A book about hope by Gabriela Olmos, translated by Elisa Amado

30 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Latin American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Sometimes, it takes a village to create a book this magnificent. Award-winning author and publisher Gabriela Olmos gathered "[s]ome of Mexico's best illustrators" who donated their art to create this stunning prayer for peace. "I dreamt of pistols that shoot butterflies ...

What a Party! by Ana Maria Machado, illustrated by Hélène Moreau, translated by Elisa Amado

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, South American, Translation

In the same delightful, sequential fun of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – if you do x, then y happens – Brazilian überauthor of more than a hundred books, Ana Maria Machado, puts on a party of epic proportions. "If a few days before your birthday your mother should...

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Five More to Go: Shing Yin Khor’s The American Dream? [in The Booklist Reader]

Manuelito by Elisa Amado, illustrated by Abraham Urias [in Booklist]

Help Young Readers Understand the Refugee Experience with Picture Books [in The Booklist Reader]

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng’s Two White Rabbits

Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng, translated by Elisa Amado

I dreamt … A book about hope by Gabriela Olmos, translated by Elisa Amado

What a Party! by Ana Maria Machado, illustrated by Hélène Moreau, translated by Elisa Amado

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