Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15, which makes this an especially great time to check out this year's Pura Belpré Award and Honor books. The Pura Belpré Award, "established in 1996, is presented 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."
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The coquíes still sing / : A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding by Karina Nicole González 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor, 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Author Honor "Co-quí, co-quí! The coquí frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to destroy everything that Elena knows. |
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A land of books : dreams of young Mexihcah word painters
by Duncan Tonatiuh 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor |
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Magic : once upon a faraway land
by Mirelle Ortega 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor |
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Phenomenal AOC : the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
by Anika Denise 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor |
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Srta. Quinces/ Miss Quinces
by Kat Fajardo 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceañera for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine wearing a big, floofy, colorful dress! What is Sue going to do? And how will she survive all this 'quality' time with her rambunctious family? |
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Still Dreaming/ Seguimos Soąndo
by Claudia Guadalupe Martn̕ez 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor A child dreams of a life without borders after he and and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation. |
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Where wonder grows
by Xelena González 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Award |
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The notebook keeper : a story of kindness from the border
by Stephen Briseño 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Author Honor |
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Tumble
by Celia C. Pérez 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Author Honor |
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Frizzy
by Claribel A. Ortega 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Author Award |
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Breathe and count back from ten
by Natalia Sylvester 2023 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor |
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High spirits : short stories on Dominican diaspora by Camille Gomera-Tavarez 2023 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor This collection of 11 interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora explore machismo, mental health and identity by following one extended family across multiple generations. |
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Transferred to a Catholic school, 16-year-old Yami Flores finds it hard to fake being straight when she falls for Bo, the only openly queer girl at school, but refuses to follow her heart until she learns to live her full truth out loud. |
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process |