Pura Belpré Book Award

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One of the highlights of the American Library Association Conference in Chicago was the Pura Belpré Book Award Celebración. The award is presented to Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Here is a list of the 2009 Medal and Honor books for illustration:

Winner:

Morales, Yuyi. Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.

Honors:

Dorros, Arthur, and Rudy Gutierrez. Papá and Me. New York: Rayo/HarperCollinsPublishers, 2008.

González, Lucía M., and Lulu Delacre. The Storyteller's Candle.
San Francisco, Calif: Children's Book Press, 2008.

Tafolla, Carmen, and Cordova, Amy. What Can You Do With a Rebozo?/ Que puede hacer con un rebozo? Paw Prints, 2009.

And here is a list of the 2009 Medal and Honor books for writing:

Winner:

Engle, Margarita. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom.
New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2008.

Honors:
Morales, Yuyi. Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.

González, Lucía M., and Lulu Delacre. The Storyteller's Candle.
San Francisco, Calif: Children's Book Press, 2008.

Jiménez, Francisco. Reaching Out. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.