Publishers Weekly has the story on what U.S. librarians consider when putting together a collection of Spanish children's books and why titles in this language are more popular than ever.

“It’s true that the monolingual zeitgeist of yesteryear may have once pressured immigrants to acculturate by speaking only in English. But in the globalized information world of today, where we’re connected to our homelands more than ever before, being multilingual is a cultural and economic asset”, says the story. “This might explain why Spanish-language easy readers, picture books, and board books continue to register higher circulation numbers in the nation’s libraries than the adult collections.”

Read the complete story here.