Pura Belpre Award Winners: 2009.
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First published January 26, 2009 (Booklist Online).
The Pura Belpré Award, co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking (REFORMA), is presented 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. The winners were announced January 26, 2009 in Denver, Colorado, during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. For more information, visit the Pura Belpré Award Home Page.
Author Award Winner
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom. By Margarita Engle. Holt, $17.95 (9780805086744).
Illustrator Award Winner
Just in Case. By Yuyi Morales. Illus. by Yuyi Morales. Roaring Brook/Neal Porter, $16.95 (9781596433298).