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Oak Park is home to a library for everyone. Connect, learn, and grow with resources, services, and programs—especially for Spanish speakers—from your public library.
What’s new
Find the latest book lists, on-demand videos and tutorials, at-home activities, interactive programming, and more below!
Meet Nora, Oak Park’s Latine Language & Culture Librarian
Nora is a community engagement librarian who is dedicated to fostering literacy, inclusivity, and lifelong learning while providing diverse resources and engaging the community in cultural enrichment. She speaks English, Spanish, and Spanglish.
Collection suggestions
Explore librarian-curated titles and book lists below.
More Spanish-language collections
At the Main Library
On the Main Library’s third floor, you can find books in Spanish in the Adult World Languages collection, including nonfiction, fiction, graphic novels, and teen fiction. Also on the third floor are books and audiobooks for learning new languages.
In the Main Library Children’s Services area, the Children’s World Languages Collection is full of books and movies in Spanish, among other languages.
Digital titles
- Books and digital audiobooks for adults, teens, and kids on Media on Demand/Libby.
- Digital films in Spanish on Kanopy.
- Magazines for all ages on Media on Demand/Libby and PressReader.
- Newspapers on PressReader and Global Newsstream
Just for kids
- Books by Latine creators recommended by children's librarians.
- Social-Emotional Learning Kits are one-of-a-kind resources that combine books, open-ended questions, and more based on a theme—all available in Spanish. They are specially designed for caregivers to share with early learners and grade schoolers.
Upcoming events
Register now for these ongoing library-led events, available in Spanish.
Online resources
Below find subscription-based resources available with your Oak Park library card and PIN.
For kids
- Little Pim (ages 0-6): Learn Spanish with videos, games, and songs.
- PebbleGo (preschool-grades 3) and PebbleGo Next (grades 3-5): Check out the Social Studies module to explore.
- World Book Student (elementary & middle schoolers): Explore a collection of articles, tables, and multimedia of the world, and find maps showing political, population, economic, and meteorological information in the World Resources section.
For adults & teens
- Gale in Context: Biography: Explore authoritative biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study, including a collection of biographies on notable Hispanic Americans. To start your search, choose Browse People and from the Topics dropdown, select Hispanic Americans.
- Mango Languages: Reach conversational proficiency in Spanish.
- Novelist Plus: Find book reviews, annotations, read-alikes, discussion guides, and book lists for fiction and nonfiction readers. Use the Advanced Search option to find titles by Hispanic American authors by selecting Hispanic American under Authors Cultural Identity.
