LIVE with 2018 Pura Belpré Award Winners!
Travis: This one was a pleasure. Today we have a special LIVE episode with a panel of 2018 Pura Belpré award winners: Ruth Behar (Lucky Broken Girl), Pablo Cartaya (The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora), Celia C. Pérez (The First Rule of Punk), and Juana Martinez-Neal (La Princesa and the Pea). It was recorded at the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans.
We hope you enjoy the show.
https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/77-2018-pura-belpre-panel-live-behar-cartaya-perez-martinez-neal/s-oCiDu
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Watch our panelists talk about getting “The Call”, notifying them of their Pura Belpré awards:
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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