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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré

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Picture bookBiography & MemoirChildren's Books
Pages
40
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

A picture-book biography of Pura Belpré, the New York Public Library's first Puerto Rican librarian, who began writing down the Puerto Rican folktales she had grown up hearing and turned them into books and puppet shows for children, becoming a pioneering advocate for bilingual storytelling.

Genres

Biography & Memoir Children's Books

Authors

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Paola Escobar

Paola Escobar is a Colombian illustrator and graphic designer based in Bogotá. She grew up moving between towns in Colombia, sketching the stories her grandmother told about their family, the countryside and its animals — an early love of drawing that grew into a childhood ambition to illustrate children's books. She has since illustrated picture books and middle-grade novels for publishers across the world, working from her own research and travel to ground each book's imagery, and is known for...