The following is a selection of publishers, distributors, and others with information about multilingual titles, resources, and guides .
ABA
The American Booksellers Association offers an extensive booksellers' guide to Spanish-language books, Books in Spanish: Sourcing and Ordering Guide. It offers tips on getting started, reaching out to the community, determining the types of books the store should carry, children's books, spreading the word, connecting with other bookstores that carry Spanish language books, how to support the books, apply for grants, and more.
Barefoot Books
Barefoot Books offers many children's titles in bilingual format, pairing English with a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, Arabic, Creole, Bengali, Portuguese, and Chinese. Check out its titles here.
Charco Press
Charco Press, which focuses on contemporary Latin American literature, publishes some of its translated titles in the original language and simultaneously through the Originales program.
The program was undertaken to expand what Spanish language readers have on offer in the U.S.--the market is overwhelmingly classics or English language works translated into Spanish, so Originales was an attempt to do what Charco does with its translation program as well: bring the best of the vast and diverse world of what's being written now to readers in the U.K. and the U.S. Charco means "puddle" so whether in Spanish or English, the books are there to bridge that gap.
Con Todo Press
Distributed by Lakeside Book Company, Con Todo Press is a Latina-owned publishing company that creates children's books that celebrate Latino leaders and culture and to help fill the gap in the publishing industry, where Latina/o/x stories are vastly under-represented. Its titles are in Spanish and English.
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi
Groundwood Books has several collections of translated, bilingual, and multilingual titles. Its Spanish Collection contains Spanish translations of the press's bestselling books, as well as books with text in both English and Spanish.
The press also has a growing collection of books that support Indigenous language revitalization. One example is a new poetry collection from author Jorge Argueta, Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat. The book was written in English, Spanish, and Nahuat, the language of the Nahua people, who are an Indigenous population in El Salvador.
Independent Publishers Group
IPG distributes a range of Spanish-language publishers and has a Spanish catalog.
Ingram
Ingram Content Group has built a multilingual catalog that includes millions of titles and is working with publishers to improve the availability of these titles. It's also seeking foreign-language publishers interested in making their titles more available in the U.S.
Inner Traditions
Inner Traditions has an extensive Spanish language program, which includes the Spanish editions of Inner Traditions titles as well as titles from Grupo Gaia that it distributes in the U.S. It also has a dedicated catalog Inner Traditions en Español.
Lee & Low
Lee & Low offers a range of guides and tips on multilingual titles, including:
- Recursos en Español (Resources in Spanish)
- The Kit de herramientas para libros biográficos (Set of tools for biographies)
- The bilingual Guia de Lee & Low Books para leer en casa con familia/The Lee & Low Guide to Reading at Home with Children.
- Multilingual Educator Q&A with Guadalupe García McCall: Author, Professor, and Educator
- Using Picture Books to Teach Multilingual Learners: Strategies from Lee & Low Books
- Supporting the Superpower of Multilingualism in Young Children Webinar
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group's many imprints offer numerous bilingual titles. Check out these collections on Edelweiss:
MCPG Spanish-Language + English/Spanish Bilingual Titles Edelweiss Collection
MacKids School & Library Latine Voices for Kids and Teens Catalog (pages 14-17 for Spanish language and Spanish/English bilingual editions)
Macmillan Bilingual Titles Edelweiss Collection
Seven Stories Press
Seven Stories Press has two Spanish-language imprints: Editorial Siete Cutentos and Ocean Sur. It also publishes bilingual books under the Seven Stories Press imprint and has translated some of its children's titles published under the Triangle Square Books for Young Readers into Spanish.
In its Spanish-language books catalog, Seven Stories notes that it features titles in Spanish by Angie Cruz, Roque Dalton, Ernesto Che Guevara, Subcomandante Marcos, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Ariel Dorfman, among many others. It has also listed Latin American interest English language titles by award-winning authors including Guadalupe Nettle, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Clyo Mendoza, and Iván de la Nuez. See titles here.
¡Viva! Los Libros
¡Viva! Los Libros, the Latine-led bookseller in Chicago, Ill., has developed a publishing operation that focuses on what it calls bilingual-by-design books: stories developed in Spanish and English at the same time, from the first word, so that neither language is a translation of the other and both carry the same cultural depth, narrative care, and room for the Spanglish and translanguaging our kids actually use at home. Its debut title, SOMOS / We Are, is a bilingual board book for children ages 2–5, available in November. Three more titles are currently in development.
In addition to books, ¡Viva! Los Libros has free and low-cost resources for the families and educators doing the daily work of raising bilingual readers:
- The Bilingual Pathways Guidebook, a community workbook for families and educators, already circulating in Chicago homes and classrooms
- El Español Empieza en Amor, a bilingual family workshop on home reading practices, offered to schools and early childhood partners
- Discussion guides, read-aloud videos, and classroom activities developed with dual-language educators, released as open resources alongside each title