Chapter Book Colorín Colorado

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Oct 31, 2025, 1:19 PM

Through children's books, interviews with children's authors, activities, and educational resources, we celebrate and learn about the rich history and cultural heritage of Asian Pacific Americans. Share these authors, books, and histories throughout the year and across the curriculum! AdLit.org is all about adolescent literacy! These booklists highlight themes related to AAPI heritage and for more titles, visit AdLit.org’s Book Finder. Colorín Colorado is the nation’s leading website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs). Colorín Colorado has dozens of AAPI booklists on its website for children and young adults.

Recent additions include: These books are a great choice for students who are learning to read! The titles included on this list feature a diverse range of characters and stories and many are part of Lee and Low's Dive Into Reading series. The timid 2nd grader is back, this time fearful of an upcoming camping trip with his father. Alvin's siblings try to help him but actually create a different sort of disaster. Readers will enjoy laughing along with these memorable characters.

The neighborhood is having a block party where everyone is responsible for bringing a food dish. Padma is excited about the party until she learns that her mother is planning to bring lentil soup. Padma thinks soup is so boring! Everyone else will bring fun things like pizza or hot dogs. Plus Padma worries that her friends won’t like the soup—but to her delight, she discovers that they not only like the soup, they want to learn how to make it. Five friends from diverse backgrounds learn how to navigate common childhood challenges, new experiences, and the world around them in the realistic and kid-friendly Confetti Kids early chapter books.

In this story, Padma is excited about meeting new people at school. Making friends comes easily to her, but she soon discovers that it can be hard for others. When she notices a boy sitting by himself every day, Padma enlists her friends to create a buddy bench, where kids can go if they need a friend. Gigi can’t wait for her Ojiji — Japanese grandpa — to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don’t work out quite the way she’d hoped.

And her grandpa doesn’t seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji? Each story in this hilarious and scary series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success — with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars... This series is a great choice for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom. For more great titles, see our Colorín Colorado Book Finder! Cousins Malia, Ivan, and Dante are visiting their aunt Lucy for the summer.

But on their way to Gulf City's water park, they get lost on 13th Street. Only it's not a street at all. It's a strange world filled with dangerous beasts! Will the cousins find their way back to Aunt Lucy's? This is the first book of the 13th Street chapter book series by David Bowles. Cousins Dante, Malia, and Ivan are happy to be back in their home town.

But then their school bus takes a wrong turn and they end up on 13th Street! There are new monsters to fight, but at least they have their friend Susana and their bus driver to help them. Will the gang ever make it to their first day of class? Ivan, Malia, and Dante are excited about their ski trip. There’s no chance they’ll stumble onto 13th Street in the mountains, right? WRONG!

After being sucked through a portal, the cousins come face-to-face with joke-telling cougars that are more dangerous than they seem. How will the kids get out of trouble this time? The following booklists for children and young adults are organized by topic so that they can easily be used all year long and across the curriculum. Many books on our recommended lists are bilingual or are available in Spanish. To see related books for older readers, see our Hispanic Heritage booklists for middle grades and young adults. For more great titles organized by age and topic, see the Colorín Colorado Book Finder!

Image: Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina, Winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal Author and illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez talks about why it is so important for all children to see themselves in books and have access to diverse books as they grow. She also shares her story "My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo" with young readers. This video was filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic at a family outreach event organized by the American Federation of Teachers and local and state affiliates in Daly City, CA. These booklists for children celebrate a wide range of cultures, languages, and experiences. They are perfect for read-alouds and bedtime stories, as well as for author studies!

You can also get to know some of the featured authors in our Meet the Authors section. To see our large selection of titles representing cultural diversity, take a look at the following sections: From Pura Belpré Award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall comes the first in the Seasons of Sisterhood trilogy: a reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone set in the world of her bestselling Summer of the Mariposas. As fifteen-year-old twins Delia and Velia plan the launch of their Magic-Twin Tour with their father's Tejano band, a sudden supernatural attack on their father derails the family. Papá is delirious with a susto, a fright so awful that it allows a mysterious supernatural being to begin slowly sucking the life out of him. As the twins hunt down his attacker, a wider world of borderland monsters opens up to them.

Each twin has her own decision to make, with her own guide from the Aztec pantheon--Quetzalcoatl guiding Velia, and Xolotl advising Delia. Soon the girls must choose: Should they follow a divine mandate to become monster hunters for the goddess of death? Can the sisters obey the will of the gods while saving their father's life? Anything can happen within the magical realm of the borderlands. The day they came for the interview, I woke up too early, thinking about Bernard Loiseau. This happens when I’m nervous—not thinking about Loiseau, specifically, but thinking in my sleep, waking up mid-thought.

The thought was in fact a memory. I write fiction now, mostly, but back in the nineties I worked for a magazine in New York, one that sent me to France to profile Bernard Loiseau, after he earned his third Michelin... I was picked because I was half French and spoke the language, not because I was good. But I wanted to be good, and writing a profile was a major step for me, so I did a lot of research on Loiseau. I concluded that interviewing him would be easy: the guy was funny, passionate, generous in his answers. The piece would write itself.

A piece that wrote itself was dubious to me, though, even as a mostly inexperienced young writer. I needed to introduce conflict, I thought, something abrasive, get Chef Loiseau off balance. I asked him about food, of course, but then I quickly jumped to questions of ambition, of jealousy and envy. Those were the kinds of things that were on my mind at the time. I was seeing too many people around me sign book deals and make connections while I was stuck cataloguing everyone else’s successes in hundred-words-or-less reviews for our culture pages. That was my story back then: twenty-four years old and already bitter.

I don’t remember exactly how I phrased it to Bernard (he’d asked me to call him that), but I remember the sentiment, I remember wanting to get this honest man, this man who’d done... I wanted to know if he was angry at another chef’s success, if there were dishes that others got famous for which he thought were crap. Camille Bordas reads “Colorín Colorado.” “Do your readers need to know this?” Loiseau had answered, the way he’d answered all my questions—not taking a split second to think about them. “Your readers—should they hear this? Do they want to know this?”

Chapter Book Colorín Colorado

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