Laura Alamillo, received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Language, Literacy and Culture. She is currently a Professor in Literacy, Early Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education Department at Fresno State. Her research includes looking at the education of emergent bilingual children specifically at humanizing and culturally sustaining teaching practices in multlingual classrooms. Larissa M. Mercado-López received her PhD in Latina Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently an associate professor of Women’s Studies at California State University, Fresno, and children’s book writer.. Her research focuses on Chicana feminisms, Tejana literature, and intersectional feminist fitness studies.Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in Literature from Claremont Graduate University and is associate professor and chair of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She has published on Chicana literature, motherhood, and young adult literature, among other topics.

These pages, these warrior voices, these fervent words, sing to my heart songs of progress—songs of hope! I cannot emphasize too much how necessary, how relevant, how timely, this book is to educators seeking to inform themselves in regards to important developments in Chicano children’s literature. Take this book, open it, and let the melody of these voces lindas carry you home.

• Foreword- U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe HerreraIntroductionSection One: Tracing Chican@ Identity and Consciousness Chapter 1- Entre Tejana y Chicana: Tracing Proto-Chicana Identity and Consciousness in Tejana Young Adult Fiction and PoetryLarissa M. Mercado-LopezChapter 2- Imagineering a Mexican American Girl: Josefina Montoya (1824) Patricia TrujilloChapter 3- A Bone to Pick: Día de los Muertos in Children’s LiteratureRoxana Loza and Tanya GonzálezChapter 4- Águila: Personal Reflections on Reading Chicanx Picturebooks from the Inside OutLettycia TerronesSection Two: Negotiating Gender and SexualityChapter 5- A Portrait of the Artist as a Muchachito: Sense, Sensibility, and the Poetic Transcendence of Masculinity in Juan Felipe Herrera's Downtown BoyPhillip SerratoChapter 6- Not So Sweet Quince: Teenage Angst and Mother-Daughter Strife in Belinda Acosta’s Young Adult Novel, Damas, Dramas, and Ana RuizCristina HerreraChapter 7- You wanna be a chump/or a champ?: Constructions of Masculinity, Absent Fathers, and Conocimiento in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Downtown BoySonia Alejandra RodriguezChapter 8- Phantasmagoric Eroticisms: Imagining Queertopias in Chicana/o Children's LiteratureCecilia AragonSection Three: Transformative Pedagogies: Reflections from Inside and Outside the ClassroomChapter 9- Chillante Pedagogy, ‘She Worlds,’ and Testimonio as Text/Image: Toward a Chicana Feminist Pedagogy in the works of Maya Christina Gonzalez Elena AvilesChapter 10- Was it All a Dream? Chicana/o Children and Mestiza Consciousness in Super Cilantro Girl (2003) and Tata’s Gift (2014) Katherine Elizabeth BundyChapter 11- Translanguaging con mi abuela: Chican@ Children’s Literature as a Means to Elevate Language Practices in Our HomesLaura Alamillo Chapter 12- Identity Texts in Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Classrooms: Chican@ Children’s Literature, Student Voice and BelongingLilian Cibils, Virginia Gallegos, Enrique Avalos, and Fabian Martinez

Laura Alamillo, received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Language, Literacy and Culture. She is currently a Professor in Literacy, Early Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education Department at Fresno State. Her research includes looking at the education of emergent bilingual children specifically at humanizing and culturally sustaining teaching practices in multlingual classrooms. Larissa M. Mercado-López received her PhD in Latina Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently an associate professor of Women’s Studies at California State University, Fresno, and children’s book writer.. Her research focuses on Chicana feminisms, Tejana literature, and intersectional feminist fitness studies.Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in Literature from Claremont Graduate University and is associate professor and chair of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She has published on Chicana literature, motherhood, and young adult literature, among other topics.

These pages, these warrior voices, these fervent words, sing to my heart songs of progress—songs of hope! I cannot emphasize too much how necessary, how relevant, how timely, this book is to educators seeking to inform themselves in regards to important developments in Chicano children’s literature. Take this book, open it, and let the melody of these voces lindas carry you home.

• Foreword- U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe HerreraIntroductionSection One: Tracing Chican@ Identity and Consciousness Chapter 1- Entre Tejana y Chicana: Tracing Proto-Chicana Identity and Consciousness in Tejana Young Adult Fiction and PoetryLarissa M. Mercado-LopezChapter 2- Imagineering a Mexican American Girl: Josefina Montoya (1824) Patricia TrujilloChapter 3- A Bone to Pick: Día de los Muertos in Children’s LiteratureRoxana Loza and Tanya GonzálezChapter 4- Águila: Personal Reflections on Reading Chicanx Picturebooks from the Inside OutLettycia TerronesSection Two: Negotiating Gender and SexualityChapter 5- A Portrait of the Artist as a Muchachito: Sense, Sensibility, and the Poetic Transcendence of Masculinity in Juan Felipe Herrera's Downtown BoyPhillip SerratoChapter 6- Not So Sweet Quince: Teenage Angst and Mother-Daughter Strife in Belinda Acosta’s Young Adult Novel, Damas, Dramas, and Ana RuizCristina HerreraChapter 7- You wanna be a chump/or a champ?: Constructions of Masculinity, Absent Fathers, and Conocimiento in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Downtown BoySonia Alejandra RodriguezChapter 8- Phantasmagoric Eroticisms: Imagining Queertopias in Chicana/o Children's LiteratureCecilia AragonSection Three: Transformative Pedagogies: Reflections from Inside and Outside the ClassroomChapter 9- Chillante Pedagogy, ‘She Worlds,’ and Testimonio as Text/Image: Toward a Chicana Feminist Pedagogy in the works of Maya Christina Gonzalez Elena AvilesChapter 10- Was it All a Dream? Chicana/o Children and Mestiza Consciousness in Super Cilantro Girl (2003) and Tata’s Gift (2014) Katherine Elizabeth BundyChapter 11- Translanguaging con mi abuela: Chican@ Children’s Literature as a Means to Elevate Language Practices in Our HomesLaura Alamillo Chapter 12- Identity Texts in Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Classrooms: Chican@ Children’s Literature, Student Voice and BelongingLilian Cibils, Virginia Gallegos, Enrique Avalos, and Fabian Martinez