More Spanish-Language Kid Lit Available in Libraries
“It’s true that the monolingual zeitgeist of yesteryear may have once pressured immigrants to acculturate by speaking only in English. But in the globalized information world of today, where we’re connected to our homelands more than ever before, being multilingual is a cultural and economic asset. This might explain why Spanish-language easy readers, picture books, and board books continue to register higher circulation numbers in the nation’s libraries than the adult collections.”
