Foreword : literature in the lives of Latino children / Alma Flora Ada -- Preface : derrumbando fronteras/breaking boundaries / Ellen Riojas Clark and Belinda Bustos Flores -- Multicultural Latino children's literature : a tool to enrich the lives and the learning of Latino bilingual learners / Ellen Riojas Clark and Belinda Bustos Flores -- Exploring the traditions of Latino children's literature : beyond tokenism to transformation / Howard L. Smith, Belinda Bustos Flores, and Daniel A. González -- Beyond calaveras and quinceañeras : fostering bilingual Latino students' identity development with culturally relevant literature / Jamie Campbell Naidoo and Ruth E. Quiroa -- Cruzando fronteras : negotiating the stories of Latino immigrant and -- Transnational children / Patricia Sánchez and Maite Landa -- Using children's literature to understand values, traditions, and beliefs within Latino family systems / Mari Riojas-Cortez and Raquel Cataldo-- Culturally relevant literature for Latino children in the early childhood classroom / Ysaaca Axelrod and Cristina Gillanders -- Embracing the complexity of language : bringing all forms of knowledge into the language arts through Latino children's literature / Christina Passos DeNicolo -- En el aquel entonces y hoy en día : using Latino children's literature to situate social studies education / Mary Esther Soto Huerta and Carmen Tafolla -- Dichos y adivinanzas : literary resources that enhance science learning and teaching in the bilingual classroom / María Guadalupe Arreguín-Anderson and Jose Escalante Ruiz -- Tiempo y cultura : exploring Latino stories through mathematics / Carlos LopezLeiva and Yoo Kyung Sung -- Cultural multiliteracies : integrating technology in Latino children's literature / Lucila Ek, Sonia Sánchez, and Myria Jimena Guerra -- Latino children's literature in picturebook format / Miriam Martinez, Nancy L. Roser, Angie Zapata, and Erin Greeter-- Tecnica con safos : visual iconography in Latino picture books as tools for cultural affirmation / Lettycia Terrones -- Latino children's literature and literacy practices as social imagination : becoming a culturally efficacious educator / Belinda Bustos Flores, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Howard L. Smith -- Realizing and capitalizing on our cultural literary heritage : the big brown elephant in the room / Oralia Garza de Cortes -- Postscript personal foundations, present realities, and future productions / Daniel Alejandro González