17 Children's Books by Latinx Authors Worth Adding to Your Kid's Bookshelf

Written by legendary Dominican author Julia Alvarez, who penned How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, her children's book The Secret Footprints ($8) is an ode to Dominican folklore. It's about a girl who is known as a ciguapa, a mythical Dominican creature who lives in underwater caves and has feet that turn back so humans can't follow them. Only this young ciguapa spots a boy on shore one day and becomes infatuated with spying on him whenever she leaves the water to hunt for food. Eventually, she is discovered by his family and learns that humans aren't as scary as she thought