“When we started introducing librarians to youth large print, we were able to increase their title acquisition almost immediately,” says Carrie Willis, lead marketing manager for Gale’s Thorndike Press, a major publisher of large print titles. The next question, she says, was, “‘Do you have it in Spanish?’”
Indeed, school librarians and educators have found that large print can be a powerful tool for students learning English. Yet there’s a glaring disparity in the marketplace: a quick search on Amazon yields more than 700,000 large print options in English, but only around 2,000 for Spanish-language readers, few of which are aimed at young readers.