<div dir="ltr">Agreed! It was a lovely educational experience and I'd love to see us do another one in the future. :D<br><br>Violeta</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:47 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanenz@comcast.net" target="_blank">tanenz@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you Martín for your quick update to us. Determining eligibility of author and/or illustrator can be very tricky. I see "The Smoking Mirror," written by David Bowles wasn’t even on our radar. The ALA committee really needs to have a wide net to consider contenders. Nonetheless we did a great job, and maybe were the only group to do and post a Mock Pura Belpré.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Saludos,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hope<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Kids-lib [mailto:<a href="mailto:kids-lib-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">kids-lib-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marti´n Blasco<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 11, 2016 9:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> Latino Services; <a href="mailto:reforma_or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">reforma_or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>; <a href="mailto:kids-lib@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">kids-lib@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [kids-lib] Pura Belpré Award<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX">Buenos días a tod@s:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The following is the ALA press release about the Latino illustrator and author winner of the Pura Belpré Award:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">Pura Belpre Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">Pura Belpre (Illustrator) Award<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">"The Drum Dream Girl," illustrated by Rafael Lopez, is the Belpre Illustrator Award winner. The book was written by Margarita Engle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">Three Belpre Illustrator Honor Books were selected: "My Tata's Remedies = Los remedios de mi tata," illustrated by Antonio Castro L., written by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford and published by Cinco Puntos Press; "Mango, Abuela, and Me," illustrated by Angela Dominguez, written by Meg Medina and published by Candlewick Press: and "Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras," illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">Pura Belpre (Author) Award:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">"Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir," written by Margarita Engle, is the Belpre Author Award winner. The book is published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#632523">Two Belpre Author Honor Books were named: "The Smoking Mirror," written by David Bowles and published by IFWG Publishing, Inc.; and "Mango, Abuela, and Me," written by Meg Medina, illustrated by Angela Dominguez and published by Candlewick Press.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I want to mention that we were very close in the selection of authors and illustrators during the Mock Pura Belpré Award. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">However, one of the Illustrator Honor Books selected in the ALA Midwinter Conference, <i>My Tata’s Remedies / Los remedios de mi tata </i>by Antonio Castro L. which was included in the list of suggested books to be voted for the Mock<b> </b>Pura Belpré Award, was eliminated from the list before the election. At the beginning of the selection I mentioned that beautiful book to all of you as <b>not </b>eligible to compete because the illustrator was born in Mexico and because I couldn’t find anywhere a reference of where he lives (everything indicated that his residence was still in Mexico, thus I assumed that his residence was still in that country). My fault, I should have called to Cinco Puntos Press to get more info. A lesson for me and a disappointment, especially because it’s a beautiful informative story, very well written and illustrated, and representative of our Latino culture. This definitely was a learning experience. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Have a great week,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Martín<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Martín Blasco<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Outreach Librarian for Latino and Youth Services Program<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Washington County Cooperative Library Services | <a href="tel:503-681-5093" value="+15036815093" target="_blank">503-681-5093</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:martinb@wccls.org" target="_blank">martinb@wccls.org</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.org/bibliotecaswccls" target="_blank">facebook.org/bibliotecaswccls</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:9.0pt">“Por favor, no importa cuanto avanzamos tecnologicamente, no abandonen al libro. En nuestro mundo material, no hay nada más hermoso que un libro”.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Patti Smith </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction)”<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br>_____________________________________________________<br>
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