Critical Translanguaging Literacies and Latinx Children’s Literature: Making Space for a Transformative and Liberating Pedagogy

There is increasing attention to and availability of children’s literature that represents the varied cultures, languages, ways of being and experiences of children in the United States. A popular infographic based on data compiled by University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center showed that in 2018, only 5% of children’s books published in that year depicted Latinx characters (Huyck & Park Dahlen, 2019). This percentage had increased slightly from 2.4% in 2015 (Huyck et al., 2016). Although there have been some gains since then, there is still a lot of work to be done to increase the opportunities, publication and integration