Latino Poetry for Children

In honor of National Poetry Month, here are a few LBBC recommendations for introducing your child or student to bilingual poetry. You may click on the title to read the review. Also, please check out our poetry section in our on-line bookshop to learn about many other wonderful poetry books.

Poemas con sol y son by Mabel Morvillo, Susana Garcia, and Vicky Ramos.


Tortillitas Para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes is selected and translated by several authors and illustrated by Barbara Cooney.


The Tree is Older Than Your Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico, ed. by Naomi Shihab Nye


Luna written by Antonio Rubio and illustrated by Óscar Villán.