Archive · not the organisation
Latinas for Latino Lit
L4LL published here from February 2013 to January 2016. This is an index of what it published, and a description of what it ran.
Latinas for Latino Lit was founded in December 2012 by four Latina bloggers — Viviana Hurtado, Lisa Quiñones-Fontanez, Carla Molina Martins and Monica Olivera — after the New York Times ran “For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing.” Their answer was practical: build the demand side. Get books by and about Latinos onto Latino bookshelves, and make the publishing industry notice that the readers were there.
What came out of it was the L4LL Latino Children's Summer Reading Program — the first nationwide online summer reading programme designed specifically for Hispanic students and families. It piloted in 2013, ran each June to August for several years, and was free. Alongside it the group ran the annual Día Blog Hop for Día de los Niños, Día de los Libros, a Hispanic Heritage Month Festival of Books, Read for the Holidays, and a living list of Latino authors and illustrators.
The archive
166 posts across 4 years, each at a working address. None of them carries the article text — the record is the headline, the date and the address, with a link to the Internet Archive's copy.
What it ran
- The Latino Children's Summer Reading Program · en español
- The Día Blog Hop
- Hispanic Heritage Month: Festival of Books
- Read for the Holidays
- The Living List of Latino Authors and Illustrators
What happened to the domain
L4LL stopped publishing at this address in 2016. The registration later lapsed, and between 2019 and 2025 the domain was used by unrelated operators for pharmacy and casino filler — several hundred pages of it. None of that is reproduced here; those addresses answer 410 Gone rather than redirect, so the takeover years do not get to inherit the blog's reputation.
Monica Olivera continued to run the summer reading programme from her own site, MommyMaestra. That, and not this archive, is where anything current lives.