{"id":13485,"date":"2016-06-26T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=13485"},"modified":"2016-06-28T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:45:42","slug":"2016-pura-belpre-awards-alaac2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/2016-pura-belpre-awards-alaac2016\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Awards at #alaac2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_3324.jpg\" alt=\"2016 Pura Belpre Awards\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The moving speeches at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the\u00a0Pura Belpr\u00e9 Awards brought tears to the eyes of illustrators, authors and attendees. \u00a0 <!--more-->Keynote speaker, Carmen Agra Deedy opened the session with a touching and humorous story about her father learning to read. \u00a0 Family was a recurring theme in the speeches. \u00a0 Antiono Castro L. spoke of his grandmother&#8217;s unusual home remedies. \u00a0Angela Dominguez couldn&#8217;t talk about her mother&#8217;s importance without crying. \u00a0Duncan Tonatiuh spoke lovingly of his parents. \u00a0Rafael Lopez, winner of the 2016 Pura Belpr\u00e9\u00a0Award for illustrator for <em>Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl&#8217;s Courage Changed Music<\/em>, spoke of how his mother&#8217;s commitment to become an architect influenced his art for the book. \u00a0Meg Medina shared a tear inducing moment about her recent anniversary and her husband. \u00a0 These heartfelt moments were part of a wonderful celebration that included a dance performance and silent art auction.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/belpremedal\">Pura\u00a0Belpr\u00e9 Medal<\/a> was established in 1996 to recognize Latino authors and illustrators for excellent children&#8217;s literature that affirms and celebrates the latino cultural experience. \u00a0It honors Pura Belpr\u00e9 the first Latina Librarian at the New York Public Library. \u00a0<em>The Pura Belpr\u00e9 Award 1996-2016: 20 Years of Outstanding Latino Children&#8217;s Literature<\/em> from Rosen Publishing was available for purchase at the reception. \u00a0Keep checking this blog for more information about educator resources for sharing the\u00a0Belpr\u00e9 award-winning literature with your library customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moving speeches at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the\u00a0Pura Belpr\u00e9 Awards brought tears to the eyes of illustrators, authors and attendees. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[859,12,22,151],"tags":[525],"class_list":["post-13485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2016","category-awards-scholarships","category-childrens-literature","category-live-blogging","tag-pura-belpre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}