Reading Rainbow premiered in 1983 and ran new episodes until 2006. The series’ contract with PBS will expire this week, so all affiliated stations will no longer be able to run episodes of the show. Let’s honor this show by remembering our own favorite kids’ books. And humming that theme song. All. Day.
3 November 2009
26 August 2009
R.I.P. Reading Rainbow: Here Are 4 Latino Children’s Books We’d Have Wanted To See On The Show
By Alex Alvarez at 1:52 PM.
10 August 2009
Oscar Casares Talks To Us About Amigoland
By Cindy Casares at 12:01 PM.
Guanabee editor Cindy Casares interviews her uncle Oscar Casares about his new book Amigoland in a fantastic breach of journalistic integrity.
7 May 2009
USA Today’s 2009 Summer Books Calendar Includes Oscar Casares And Six Other Latino Reads
By Cindy Casares at 1:35 PM.
USA Today just released its Summer Reading Calendar and, on it, are eight titles from or about Latinos including the first novel from our (okay, my) uncle, Oscar Casares. Amigoland is Oscar Casares’ second book, a follow up to his widely lauded collection of shorts, Brownsville: Stories.
21 April 2009
Jorge Ramos Not To Be Left Out Of The Obama Book Giving
By Cindy Casares at 9:10 AM.
Univision news anchor and dream boat Jorge Ramos, who we love in ways that are unhealthy and obsessive, also gave President Obama some reading material recently. But unlike Hugo Chavez who gave Obama someone else’s book, Ramos gave him the manuscript to his own tome–Tierra de Todos: Nuestro momento para crear una nación de iguales.
23 January 2009
Guanareads Book Club: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
By Alex Alvarez at 5:15 PM.
The Part About the Critics
So we completed the first section of Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s gargantuan opus, 2666. And, so far, we’re completely on board. We’ve followed the four Archimboldian critics - Pelletier, Espinoza, Norton and Morini - as they’ve swapped theories, anecdotes, stories and bodily fluids. All save Morini have traveled to Mexico in search [...]
14 November 2008
Joe The Plumber To Become “Joe The Author Of Novels You Buy At The Airport When Drunk”
By Alex Alvarez at 9:00 AM.
9 October 2008
People En Español Presents Leyendas, A Book On 100 Influential Hispanics
By Alex Alvarez at 5:15 PM.
