The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and REFORMA de Fresno, the newest chapter of the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, will present a panel discussion in celebration of the Pura Belpré Award’s 20th anniversary. The presentation will be held on Thursday, September 15th from 4:00-6:30 p.m. in the Fresno State North Gym, Room 118. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Generaciones, a bi-lingual community based music group featuring children’s guitarists and serving the low-income working class community of Fresno, will perform at the end of the program. Pura Belpré award-winning books will be available for purchase and signing.
Panel members for the event include:
- Margarita Engle and Rafael López, the 2016 Pura Belpré author and illustrator award winners;
- Alicia K. Long, former Pura Belpré Award selection committee member, Multicultural Literature Instructor, University of South Florida School of Information and Librarian, State College of Florida Libraries;
- Josefa Bustos Pelayo, multiple subject/dual immersion teacher at Jefferson Charter Academy (Hanford, CA).
- Sandra Ríos Balderrama, co-founder of the Pura Belpré Award and REFORMA de Fresno, and literary and library activist, will serve as the panel moderator.
Margarita Engle won the 2016 author award for her book, Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir; Rafael López took the prize for his illustration of Margarita Engle’s picture book, Drum Dream Girl.
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature
Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno
Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno
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