2015 PURA BELPRE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

   

Congratulations to Marjorie Agosin and Yuyi Morales on being named 2015 Pura Belpré Award Winners.  Felicidades!

 

2015 Author Award Winner  

I LIVED ON BUTTERLY HILL, written by Marjorie Agosín, illustrated by Lee White and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division.

2015 Illustrator Award Winner

VIVA FRIDA, illustrated and written by Yuyi Morales and published by Roaring Brook Press, a Neal Porter Book.

by Marjorie Agosin, Atheneum Books

by Yuyi Morales, Roaring Brook Press

The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, an ALA affiliate. 

Click here for the full press release on the winners and the Honor’s List.

Congratulations to ALL the winners!