This award is presented biennially and honors Latino authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a children's book. The award, established in 1996, is named after Pura Belpre, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library.
The following list includes the award winners, and their respective call numbers in the Millar Library. The Children's Literature Award Winners are all shelved together at the beginning of the PZ call number range in the southeast corner of the 5th floor. Titles without call numbers are not currently owned by the Millar Library. Ask for help at the reference desk on the 2nd floor if you need assistance with obtaining a copy from another library.
The list of award winners and their locations in the Millar Library can be retrieved by entering Pura Belpre Award as a keyword search in the Vikat online catalog.
2009
Narrative:
Margarita Engle, The
Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (PZ8.3.E55
S87 2008)
Illustration:
Yuyi Morales, Just
In Case (PZ8.9.L3 M598 2008)
2008
Narrative:
Margarita Engle, The
Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (PZ8.3.E55
P64 2006)
Illustration:
Yuyi Morales, Los
Gatos Black on Halloween. (PZ8.3.M775 G38 2006)
2006
Narrative:
Viola Canales, The
Tequila Worm (PZ7.C161643 T47 2005)
Illustration:
Raul Colón, Doña
Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart
(PZ7.M78819 D66 2005)
2004
Narrative:
Julia Alvarez, Before We Were Free
(PZ7.A48 B44 2002)
Illustration:
Yuyi Morales, Just a minute: a trickster
tale and counting book (PZ8.1.M7955 J87 2003)
2002
Narrative:
Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
(PZ7.R9335 E87 2000)
Illustration:
Susan Guevara, Illustrator. Written by Gary Soto, Chato and the Party
Animals (PZ7.S7242 C48 2000)
2000
Narrative:
Alma Flor Ada, Under the Royal Palms: A
Childhood in Cuba. (PZ9.5 .A327 A3 1998)
Illustration:
Carmen Lomas Garza, Magic Windows (PZ9 .L786
M34 1999)
1998
Narrative:
Martinez, Victor, Parrot in the Oven: mi
vida (PZ7 .M36718 P37 1996)
Illustration:
Stephanie Garcia, Illustrator. Written by Gary Soto,
Snapshots from the
Wedding (PZ7 .S7242 S63 1997)
1996
Narrative:
Cofer, Judith Ortiz, An Island Like You: Stories
of the Barrio (PZ7.O765 I85 1995)
Illustration:
Guevara, Susan, Illustrator. Written by Gary Soto, Chato's Kitchen (PZ7.S7242
C4823 1997)
For more information about the award visit the American Library
Association, Association for Library Service to Children website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/belpremedal/belprmedal.htm
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Last updated on January 11, 2005