Resources

Click here to download the 2008 bilingual brochure (PDF) The brochure features Dora the Explorer TM, an updated recommended reading list, and tips for parents in English and Spanish on reading to and with children.

• Día Fact Sheet
  Basic information about the initiative.
  
  
• Logos for Download
  We enourage you to use these color and black-and-white logos on flyers and materials you produce for your events, or on your library's Web site.
  
  
• Día Founder Pat Mora's Web site
  
  
• REFORMA: the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, is the exclusive Founding Partner of Día.
  http://reforma.org/resources/ninos/dia.html
  
  
• Click here for a bibliography developed by the AAP Publishing Latino Voices in America Task Force and the ALSC Quicklists Consulting Committee.
  
  
• Click here for a tool kit featuring ideas and book suggestions from Random House.
  

• Information about the Estela & Raúl Mora Award, sponsored by REFORMA and Pat Mora and given annually to a library with an exemplary Día program.
  
  
• Día States: Currently there are two: Texas and Florida. California has pilot statewide programs in 2008; check back for more details on their progress shortly. Click on the links below to see support for the initiative on the state level in Texas and Florida:
  - Comprehensive librarians' tool kit, developed by the Texas Library Association
  - The Texas State Library and Archives Commission, http://www.tsl.state.tx.us./ld/projects/ninos/index.html
  - The State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Department of State, http://www.diaflorida.com
  
  
• "Celebrating Children and Books: El día de los niños /El día de los libros," by Pat Mora and Rose Zertuche Treviño, Book Links, January 2007
  This article in the Multicultural Literature issue of Book Links magazine discusses the history of Día and offers ideas for how to celebrate.
  
  
• Sample attendee survey you can use to hand out at your events, based on one developed by the Austin, Tex., Public Library, St. John Branch, for Día 2007. If you work with partners and sponsors, you'll want to collect this information to demonstrate the impact of your events.
  
  
• ¡Colorín Colorado!  http://www.colorincolorado.org/calendar/celebrations/dia

• Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/calendar/dia
  
  
• National Latino Children's Institute http://www.nlci.org/DLN2004/dlnmain.htm
  
  
• The El Paso Public Library was a Día Super Site in 2007 and hosts a celebration every year that attracts 35,000 people! See how they do it.
  http://www.elpasotexas.gov/kidszone/kidszone_library/diadelosninos/diadelosninos.htm
  
  
• For more information regarding the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, please visit: http://www.education.txstate.edu/departments/Tomas-Rivera-Book-Award-Project-Link.html
  
  
• Information about the Pura Belpré Awards, sponsored by ALSC and REFORMA.