Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
by
Anika Aldamuy Denise
illustrated by
Paola Escobar
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Harper
Imprint
ISBN
9780062748683
Awards and Honors
2020 Orbis Pictus Award Honor
SLJ Best Books - 2019
CPL Best Books - 2019
CSMCL Best Books - 2019
The Nonfiction Detectives Best Nonfiction Books - 2019
Pura Belpré Author Award Honoree - 2020
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When Pura Belpré came to America in 1921, she carried with her a passion for her homeland's folktales. She became a New York City librarian renowned for her story hours—and continued to share Puerto Rican folktales across the United States by turning them into books.
Author’s note. Selected bibliography. Further resources. Further reading. Stories by Pura Belpré mentioned in the book. Full-color digital illustrations created in Photoshop.
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Details
Format
Page Count
40
Trim Size
11" x 8 1/2"
Dewey
20.92
AR
4: points 0.5
Lexile
860L
Genre
Nonfic
Scholastic Reading Counts
0
JLG Release
Mar 2019
Book Genres
Nonfic
Topics
Pura Belpré (1899-1982). New York Public Library employees. Biography. Women librarians. New York City. Twentieth-century American authors. Puerto Rican women. American literature. Puerto Rico. Immigrants. Folklore. Storytelling. Spanish language materials.
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