{"id":887,"date":"2009-10-12T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2009-10-12T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:29:10","slug":"author-spotlight-margarita-engle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/author-spotlight-margarita-engle\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Spotlight: Margarita Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margarita Engle is the author of the 2006 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal Winner, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano<\/i>, and The Surrender Tree<\/i>, which received the 2009 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal as well as a 2009 Newbery Honor.<\/p>\n

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers is a division of MacMillan which provides a wonderful profile page of Ms. Engle<\/a>. One of my favorite stories is how her mother and father met in Cuba. Since neither could speak the other’s language, they communicated with each other through drawing pictures.<\/p>\n

On ALSC’s Pura Belpr\u00e9<\/a> page, the 2009 Belpr\u00e9 Committee Chair Claudette McLinn remarks, \u201cEngle\u2019s prose breathes life into each character, and her rich use of language catapults the reader into the jungles of Cuba. The engaging story keeps the reader racing through the pages of history.”<\/p>\n

I was thrilled to attend the 2009 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Celebraci\u00ed\u00b3n<\/a>. I’m pleased to share with you a portion of Ms. Engle’s beautiful acceptance speech. <\/p>\n

cover of Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle<\/a><\/p>\n


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\nexcerpted portions of Engle\u2019s Pura Belpr\u00e9 acceptance speech for The Surrender Tree<\/a><\/p>\n

— posted by Teresa Walls, ALSC member and ALSC Blog manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margarita Engle is the author of the 2006 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal Winner, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, and The Surrender Tree, which received the 2009 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal as well as a 2009 Newbery Honor. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers is a division of MacMillan which provides a wonderful profile page of Ms. Engle. One of my favorite stories is how her mother and father met in Cuba. Since neither could speak the other’s language, they communicated with each other through drawing pictures. On ALSC’s Pura Belpr\u00e9 page, the 2009 Belpr\u00e9 Committee Chair Claudette McLinn remarks, \u201cEngle\u2019s prose breathes life into each character, and her rich use of language catapults the reader into the jungles of Cuba. The engaging story keeps the reader racing through the pages of history.” I was thrilled to attend the 2009 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Celebraci\u00ed\u00b3n. I’m pleased to share…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[85,22,61,34,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-spotlight","category-childrens-literature","category-diversity","category-awards","category-other-ala-divisionsprograms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}