A Latino Heritage, Series III: A Guide to Juvenile Books About Hispanic People and Cultures - Hardcover

Schon, Isabel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810821338 ISBN 13: 9780810821330

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1991

Synopsis

Like its predecessors, A Historic Heritage, Series III is designed as an aid for librarians and teachers who are interested in exposing students to the cultures of Hispanic people. The books listed are intended to provide students in kindergarten through high school with an understanding and appreciation of the people, history, and art and political, social, and economic problems of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela, and the Hispanic heritage people of the United States. The volume is arranged in chapters that explore specific countries and cultures, and chapters on Central and Latin America as a whole. Books are listed in alphabetical order by author surname. An attempt has been made to include most in-print books in English published since 1984 in the U.S. concerning the countries and people listed above, as well as general books on Latin America. Especially noteworthy titles that contain recent information and are also entertaining are marked with an asterisk. The author has assigned tentative grade levels and expresses her personal opinions of the books in the annotations. With author, subject, and title indexes.

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Review

Once again Isabel Schon has produced a quality guide...Excellent as a collection development tool, this is an affordable book which will be useful to academic, school, and public libraries.--American Reference Books Annual

...another excellent guide book...a valuable selection and collection development resource...Schon's annotations are so well crafted that they are truly interesting to read.--Teacher Librarian

...another usable guide...Highly recommended.--The Book Report

...useful for collection development. Rarely in books of this sort are annotations as explicit as these...--Booklist

About the Author

Isabel Schon (Ph.D., University of Colorado) is Professor of Library Science, Arizona State University, Tempe. Among her widely acclaimed publications are A Bicultural Heritage, A Hispanic Heritage, A Hispanic Heritage, Series II, Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults, Series I-IV,and Basic Collection of Children's Books in Spanish (Scarecrow). She won ALA's Grolier Award in 1986.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0810821338
• ISBN 13: 9780810821330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158