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Read to Your Grandchildren

Día’s 20th anniversary year celebration continues with two new videos featuring grandparents and grandchildren in Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. The videos were created by Día Dynamos Christine Vasquez, a retired librarian and Thom Eberhardt, a retired filmmaker and screenwriter. Librarian Elizabeth Martinez assisted. As Sky City Productions, they created and filmed these spots to assist in promoting Día’s 20th Anniversary nationally. How generous of them to donate their creative talents for all of...

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Children’s Day, Book Day or Día is a year-long commitment to linking children and families of ALL cultures to books.

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and Día partner ¡Colorín Colorado! has put together a web page that celebrates family traditions and the rich diversity of Asian and Pacific Americans with books, activities, and a variety of resources and ideas for ELL educators.

To help in planning your own many-cultured celebrations, the Día Planning Booklet has a section called...

Don’t forget to bring some audiobooks

Spring is a busy time for families as everyone leaves the lethargy of winter behind: sports practice, school Field Days, weekend picnics, long holiday weekends. Why not use the extra car time to listen to some audiobooks?

Delicious Hullabaloo/Pachanga deliciosa

The Desert is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre

Gracias~Thanks

Yum! ¡Mmm! ¡Qué Rico! America’s Sproutings

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Publishers Weekly: Pat Mora Celebrates 20 Years of Honoring Día

Publishers Weekly helped wrap up the 20th anniversary Día celebration with a nice article by Sally Lodge on May 5th: Pat Mora Celebrates 20 Years of Honoring Día.

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Let’s give our mothers the gift of poetry and story

This weekend, be sure to read your Mamá or Abuelita a poem or a story.

Illustration by Paula S. Barragán M. from Love to Mamá

Illustration by Elizabeth Sayles from The Rainbow Tulip

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Pat in SLJ: on Día, the Arbuthnot Lecture, and Diverse Books: 20 Years and Counting

Pat was featured in a great article in School Library Journal on April 30! Read Pat Mora on Día, the Arbuthnot Lecture, and Diverse Books: 20 Years and Counting, written by Ruth Quiroa.

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Celebrate Children, Celebrate Books, April 30, 2016 Día’s 20th Anniversary

Continue or begin the Día tradition in your home and family. Give a book to your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, children of friends and neighbors. Let’s celebrate all our children and share bookjoy with them day by day, día por día.

This year, we are celebrating the 560 programs (from 40 states) entered into ALSC’s National Día Program Registry (not all celebrations register their events), with an estimated 103,635 participants!

Many thanks to each of you who, as part of our D...

Do-it-yourself Día

If you can’t find a nearby Día celebration, then create your own! Any combination of family+books will do! Here are a few ideas:

Family Book Fiesta
Turn tomorrow (Saturday, April 30) into your family’s very own Book Fiesta! Don’t leave the stories until bedtime – read at breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between!

Día in the park
2016 is the 20th anniversary of Día and the 100th anniversary of the National Parks. Whether your nearby park is National or not, try to enjoy it this weekend, and don’...

Celebrating Día’s 20th on Capitol Hill

On April 27, Pat Mora joined Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) President Andrew Medlar for a 20th anniversary Día celebration on Capitol Hill, complete with books, cake and lemonade! Three important visitors came by to share in the celebration, reading aloud to a group of children from D.C. schools CentroNía and Payne Elementary: Congressman Donald M. Payne Jr. (NJ) read Last Stop on Market Street; Senator Jack Reed (RI) read Drum Dream Girl and Congressman Mark Takano (CA) r...

Looking ahead to Día’s next 20 years

Pat was honored to have been chosen to give The May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture, “Bookjoy! Alegria en los Libros!”, on April 15, 2016 in Santa Barbara, CA. She shared some personal bookjoy stories and made reference to Día’s origins, but she also expanded on her ideas for raising a nation of readers, and how she sees collaboration as the next important step in Día’s journey. Watch the lecture here:

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