{"id":9033,"date":"2014-07-01T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2014-07-01T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:04:30","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-the-pura-belpre-award-celebracion-alaac14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/behind-the-scenes-at-the-pura-belpre-award-celebracion-alaac14\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes at the Pura Belpr\u00e9 Award Celebraci\u00ed\u00b3n #alaac14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Medalist Yuyi Morales created this dress to match her award-winning book, Ni\u00f1o Wrestles the World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Pura Belpr\u00e9 Award<\/a> Celebraci\u00ed\u00b3n is always my favorite event at ALA. The award is given to an illustrator and a writer whose work “best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.” I was a committee member back in 2010, and I try to help with the event each year because I love spending time with my friends from REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library And Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking)\u00a0 and CAYASC (Children’s and Young Adult Services Committee). It’s always really fun to meet the award recipients, too, of course!<\/p>\n

This year’s decorations were especially beautiful. Committee member Armando Ramirez provided bright purple papel picado which he had custom designed with Pura Belpr\u00e9’s image on every sheet of the delicate paper. Armando also brought his collection of beautiful rebozos to adorn the tables.<\/p>\n

Since it was the first event of the day to take place in the Caesar’s Palace Octavius Ballroom, the hotel workers were nice enough to let us take a sneak peek the night before the Celebraci\u00ed\u00b3n. After the event, the workers let a few of us leave via the secret freight elevator in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

As always, the speeches were the best part of the event. The authors and illustrators shared heartbreaking and heartwarming stories about growing up Latino in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Jose\u00cc\u0081-Luis Orozco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As is the tradition, after the speeches we held hands and swayed while singing the folksong “De Colores.” This year we were lucky enough to have Jos\u00e9-Luis Orozco perform for us. Since I am a huge fan, I gave him a special gift which he wore during the performance–a hand carved guitar pick holder on a leather string which was made by one of my library’s teen volunteers.<\/p>\n

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Meg Medina’s Young Adult novel wins the medal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I almost forgot to mention how much I loved this year’s winning titles: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass<\/em> by Meg Medina, and Ni\u00f1o Wrestles the World<\/em> by Yuyi Morales. Please try to buy multiple copies of each for your library’s Children’s and Young Adult collections.<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Hickman, Youth Services Librarian, Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pura Belpr\u00e9 Award Celebraci\u00ed\u00b3n is always my favorite event at ALA. The award is given to an illustrator and a writer whose work “best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.” I was a committee member back in 2010, and I try to help with the event each year because I love spending time with my friends from REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library And Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking)\u00a0 and CAYASC (Children’s and Young Adult Services Committee). It’s always really fun to meet the award recipients, too, of course! This year’s decorations were especially beautiful. Committee member Armando Ramirez provided bright purple papel picado which he had custom designed with Pura Belpr\u00e9’s image on every sheet of the delicate paper. Armando also brought his collection of beautiful rebozos to adorn the tables. Since…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"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":[380,61,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2014","category-diversity","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}