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Pura Belpré Award
The Pura Belpré Award is a recognition presented to a Latino or Latina author and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for children or youth. It was established in 1996. It was given every other year since 1996 until 2009 when it was changed to be given annually. The award is named in honor of Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian from the New York Public Library. As a children's librarian, storyteller, and author, she enriched the lives of Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latino children through her pioneering work of preserving and disseminating Puerto Rican folklore. The award is given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking (REFORMA). Criteria From 1996 to 2020, two medals were awarded at ALA's annual conference, one to a Latinx author and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association For Library Service To Children
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is a division of the American Library Association. ALSC has over 4,000 members, including children, experts in children's literature, publishers, faculty members, and other adults. The Association has nearly 60 active committees and task forces, including programs for youth, publishing resources and journals, evaluating and awarding media for children. ALSC sets standards for library services to children through regular updates to its "Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries." The most recent competencies which was adopted in 2015, emphasized seven core areas of competence, including; services, programs, outreach, collection development, and administrative practices. Media mentorship In 2015, the ALSC Board accepted a white paper titled "Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth". This paper outlines the role of librarians and other library staff who serve youth and families with particular regard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. History Nineteenth century The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly'' was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country. In 1878, Leypoldt sold ''The Publishers' Weekly'' to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola Canales
Viola Canales (born 21 April 1957) is an American lawyer. She is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School as well as a writer who has published two novels, a short story collection, and a book of poetry. She is best known for ''The Tequila Worm'' (2005), which won several awards, including the Pura Belpré Award and others. Education Originally from McAllen, Texas, Canales received a scholarship to attend St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin, Texas), St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, when she was 15 years old. She was matriculated at Harvard College in 1979 but took two leaves of absence during her undergraduate years to first work as a community organizer for United Farm Workers and secondly to serve in the United States Army at Fort Benning. She graduated ''cum laude'' in 1986 and went on to earn her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1989. Career She was also stationed in West Germany and served as a tactical director overseeing the MIM-104 Patriot, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Diaz (illustrator)
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Casilla
Robert Casilla (born April 16, 1959) is an American artist and illustrator of award-winning children's books. He has illustrated over 30 children's books, including biographies and multicultural stories. His illustrations are influenced by his Hispanic background. Biography Mr. Casilla was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1982. Mr. Casilla has illustrated several books for children, including biographies of Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Jackie Robinson, and Eleanor Roosevelt. His parents are native from Puerto Rico and Mr. Casilla attended school in Puerto Rico in the fourth grade. He has illustrated various multicultural children books, including Belpré Medal winner ''First Day in Grapes.'' Casilla has been interested in drawing since he was a child. He currently resides in New Fairfield, Connecticut. He lives with his wife and two children. He has three cats and one dog. Careers Robert Casilla has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness is an American publishing company that produces two e-zines focused on bookselling, books, and book reviews: ''Shelf Awareness'' is aimed at general consumers, while ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' caters for industry professionals. History The company was co-founded by editor/journalist John Mutter (editor-in-chief) and Jenn Risko (publisher) in 2005 to produce a trade magazine for booksellers. In 2007, Shelf Awareness had 10,000 subscribers in the book industry subscribers. In partnership with ''Unshelved'', which was read by 35,000 librarians and others, the company started running a new service for publishers to communicate with their readers, via a searchable online database of "drop-in" titles (also known as crash or add-in titles). In 2011, Shelf Awareness launched a consumer book review version called ''Shelf Awareness for Readers''. The company hired Marilyn Dahl as the review editor and Jennifer Brown as the children's literature editor. In November of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuyi Morales
Yuyi Morales (born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico on November 7, 1968)Yuyi Morales (1968-). (2012). In L. Kumar (Ed.), ''Something About the Author'' (Vol. 241, pp. 104-108). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=SATA&sw=w&u=22417_vcpl&v=2.1&id=BRWEFL190947617&it=r&asid=9427a3b4a04f17b0b8ed3115884f13be is a Mexican-American children's book author and illustrator. She is known for her books ''Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Little Night,'' and '' Viva Frida,'' which received the 2015 Pura Belpre Medal for illustration as well as a 2015 Caldecott Honor. Morales is the first Latina to be a Caldecott recipient. Early life Yuyi Morales was born in the city of Xalapa in the Mexican State of Veracruz in 1968. She is the oldest of four children. As a child she loved drawing, and often paired her pictures with stories. Her mother was a homemaker, and Morales has stated, "She made all our clothes, coats, hats, underwear. She made the bedspreads, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amada Irma Perez
Amada Irma Perez (born 1951) is a Mexican American writer and advocate for programs encouraging multicultural understanding. She has written four children's books and is a recipient of the 2004 Pura Belpré Award for illustration. Early life and education Perez was born in 1951, in Mexicali Mexico, as the oldest of 6 children. When she was five years old her family moved to a labor camp in El Monte, California, where her father worked at an aluminum foundry. Her childhood experiences immigrating to the United States and subsequent living conditions were the inspiration for the autobiographical fiction stories ''My Very Own Room/Mi propio cuartito'' and ''My Diary From Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla''. While in grade school Amada taught her mother English, while her mother taught her in Spanish. This would become the foundation of Amada's interest in teaching. She earned her B.A. in English from California Polytechnic State University and her master's degree in Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels '' How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), ''In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo!'' (1997). Her publications as a poet include ''Homecoming'' (1984) and ''The Woman I Kept to Myself'' (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation ''Something to Declare'' (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers. Julia Alvarez has also written several books for younger readers. Her first picture book for children was "The Secret Footprints" published in 2002. Alvarez has gone on to write several other books for young readers, including the "Tía Lola" book series. Born in New York, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Jiménez (writer)
Francisco Jiménez (born June 29, 1943) is a Mexican-American writer and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Personal life Francisco Jiménez was born in 1943 in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, as the second oldest of eight children.Karlsson, Suess. "Francisco Jimenez: Out of the Fields." ''World and I'', no. 6, 2009. Up until he was four years old, he lived in a town in the state of Jalisco, Mexico called El Rancho Blanco. His family then immigrated to California to work as migrant farm workers. When he was six years old, he started working in the fields with his family. Growing up, his family would move frequently, following seasonal crops, causing him to miss months of school every year. When Jiménez was in eighth grade, his family was deported back to Mexico. Several months later, they returned legally and settled down in a migrant labor camp in Santa Maria, California called Bonetti Ranch. His father could not work anymore because of severe back problems, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esperanza Rising
''Esperanza Rising'' is a young adult historical fiction novel written by Mexican-American author Pam Muñoz Ryan and released by Scholastic Press on 27 March 2000. The novel focuses on Esperanza, the only daughter of wealthy Mexican parents Sixto and Ramona, and follows the events that occur after her father's murder. Esperanza, her mother, and their former household servants flee to California with no money during the Great Depression, where they find low-paying agricultural work. Plot synopsis Esperanza Ortega, the daughter of wealthy landowners, lives in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 1930 on her family's ranch with her mother, father and grandmother. The day before Esperanza's 13th birthday, her father is murdered while working on the ranch. At her birthday party, she receives a doll from him. It was her last gift from him. Her step-uncle Luis reveals that he now owns their land. He offers to continue to care for them and their ranch if Esperanza's mother, Ramona, will marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Pam Muñoz Ryan (born December 25, 1951) is an American writer for children and young adults, particularly in the multicultural genre. Biography Muñoz Ryan was born in Bakersfield, California. She is half Mexican with Basque, Italian, and Oklahoman cultural influences. Muñoz Ryan has written over forty books for young people, including picture books, early readers, middle grade, and young adult novels. She has been the author recipient of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature, and the Ludington Award for her body of work. She is also the 2018 U.S. nominee for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her novel '' Esperanza Rising'' was commissioned as a play by the Minneapolis Children's Theatre and has been performed in venues around the US, including the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston. Born Pamela Jeanne Banducci in Bakersfield, California, on December 25, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
