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Curriculum Collection: PURA BELPRE Award

Information about the Award

Welcome to the Pura Belpre Award Homepage
The Pura Belpre Medal was named in honor of the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library, Pura Belpre. It is now awarded annually 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.
Pura Belpre Award Winners, 1996 to present

Book about the Pura Belpré award

Pura Belpre Awards
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Pura Belpré Author Award

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Call Number: JUV F .S127a 2012
Pura Belpré́ Author Award, 2013
Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2013
Dreamer
Call Number: JUV F .R989d 2010
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2011
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2021
Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir
Call Number: JUV 811.54 .E58e 2015
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2016
I Lived on Butterfly Hill
Call Number: JUV F .A275i 2014
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2015
Juana and Lucas
Call Number: JUV F .M491 2016
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2017
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Call Number: JUV F .H634 2021
Pura Belpré Children's Author Award 2022
Lucky Broken Girl
Call Number: JUV F .B419 2017
Pura Belpré Award, 2018
Poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Call Number: JUV 811.54 .M295e 2006
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2008
The Poet X
Call Number: JUV F .A173 2018
Pura Belpré Award, 2019
Return to Sender
Call Number: JUV F A473r 2009
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2010
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (a Sal and Gabi Novel, Book 1) by Carlos Hernandez
Call Number: JUV F .H557 2019
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2020
The Surrender Tree
Call Number: JUV 811.54 .E58 2008
Pura Belpre Author Award, 2009
Under the Mesquite
Call Number: JUV F .M122 2011
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2012
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Call Number: JUV F .M491y 2013
Pura Belpré Author Award, 2014

Pura Belpré Author Honor Award

Hurricane Dancers : the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck
Call Number: JUV 811.54 .E58 2011
Pura Belpré́ Honor Book, 2012.
Lightning Dreamer
Call Number: JUV F .E58L 2013
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2014
The Living
Call Number: JUV F .P349L 2013
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2014
Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel
Call Number: JUV F .G245 2011
Pura Belpre Honor Book, 2012.
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: a migrant's tale
Call Number: JUV F .T663p 2013
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2014
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
Call Number: JUV 920.009 .H564 2014
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2015
Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
Call Number: JUV F .M296r 2012
Pura Belpre´ Honor Book, 2013

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

Diego Rivera : his world and ours
Call Number: JUV 759.972 .T663 2011
Pura Belpré Illustrator award, 2012
Dreamers
Call Number: JUV F .M828 2018
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2019
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music
Call Number: JUV 811.54 .E58d 2015
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2016
Grandma's Gift
Call Number: JUV F .V434 2010
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award, 2011
Just in Case : a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet book
Call Number: JUV F .M828 2008
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award, 2009
Los gatos black on Halloween
Call Number: JUV F .M668 2006
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award, 2008.
Lowriders to the Center of the Earth
Call Number: JUV F .C193 2016
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2017
Martin de Porres
Call Number: JUV 282.092 .S349 2012
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2013
Niño wrestles the world
Call Number: JUV F .M828n 2013
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2014
Viva Frida
Call Number: JUV 759.972 .M828 2014
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2015
Book fiesta! : celebrate Children’s Day/book day = Celebremos el día de los niños/el día de los libros
Call Number: JUV F .M827 2009
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, 2010.

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Award

Cazuela that the farm maiden stirred
Call Number: JUV F .V216 2011
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book, 2012
Green is a chile pepper : a book of colors
Call Number: JUV F F .T449g 2014
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2015
Little Roja Riding Hood
Call Number: JUV 398.2 .E37 2014
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2015
Mango, Abuela, and Me
Call Number: JUV F .M491 2015
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book, 2016
Maria had a little llama
Call Number: JUV F .D671m 2013
Pura Belpre´ Honor Book, 2014
Marisol Mcdonald Doesn't Match
Call Number: JUV F .B879m 2011
Pura Belpre´ Honor Book, 2012
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
Call Number: JUV 379.263 .T663 2014
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2015
Tito Puente, Mambo King = Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo
Call Number: JUV F .B879t 2013
Pura Belpre´ Honor Book, 2014
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: a migrant's tale
Call Number: JUV F .T663p 2013
Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2014

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