My Hispanic Heritage month door decoration is on the amazing Pura Belpre, who was the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. She couldn't find books for kids in Spanish, so she wrote her own. Pura traveled all over NYC telling stories with puppets in Spanish and English, so people in the Spanish-speaking community would know that the library was a place where they belonged. The Pura Belpre award is given every year to the Latinx writer whose book best portrays and celebrates the Latino experience for children and youth.
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