The Stars are Big, Bright and Bilingual in Tejas!

Three Piñata Books for Kids Chosen for Tejas Star Reading List HOUSTON, TX January 2014—Three books published as part of Arte Público’s imprint for children and young adults, Piñata Books, were chosen for the 2014-15 Tejas Star Reading List. The Tejas Star Reading List (TSRL) is developed to encourage children ages 5-12 to explore multicultural books and to discover the cognitive and economic benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism. Sponsored by the Texas Library Association, the TSRL is intended for recreational reading and not to support a specific curriculum. The program began as the Tejas Star Book Award, created by the Region One ESC Library Advisory Committee. The Texas Library Association assumed responsibility for the list in 2012. Texas school children will read the books on the list and vote for their favorite one. The three Piñata Books selected for consideration are: Canta, rana, canta / Sing, Froggie, Sing with illustrations …

Author on the Airwaves: Yolanda Gallardo

Arte Público Press Author Yolanda Gallardo featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Gallardo for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author:     YOLANDA GALLARDO is a poet, playwright and novelist born in the Bronx to parents of Cuban and Venezuelan/Puerto Rican heritage. Her play, Everybody Knows My Business, has been performed in Puerto Rico and optioned for Off Broadway. She’s the author of a digital poetry collection, The Fragile Thread (Word Wrangler Press), and her poems have been published in journals including Long Shot Magazine and Chiricú. She lives and works in Bronxville, New York. About her new book, The Glass Eye: Doña Amada can see more through one eye than …