2022 Américas Award Winners Announced!

The 2022 Winners of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature have been announced! This year’s Américas Award goes to Child of the Flower-Song People written by Gloria Amescua and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams ComicArts, 2021) and to My Two...

Check Out CLASP Events at LASA 2022!

We look forward to seeing you virtually at the CLASP General Business and Outreach Committee Meetings as well as the CLASP-sponsored sessions at LASA 2022.The CLASP General Business and Outreach meetings take place on Saturday, May 7, at 6:00-7:30pm (Pacific Time)...

Américas Award Announces 2022 Call for Submissions

The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs’ Américas Award is now accepting submissions for the 2022 cycle! Call for Submissions deadline is January 31, 2022 Rationale To encourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s...

2021 Américas Award Winners Announced!

The 2021 Winners of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature have been announced! This year’s award goes to Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built (Schwartz & Wade, 2020), written by Angela Burke Kunkel and...

2021 Global Read Webinar Series Announced

Once a month throughout the 2021 spring semester, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award) will sponsor a 60 minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards....