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Education: Childhood Education and Care: Pura Belpré Award

This guide supports the Salem State University's Childhood Education program at the School of Education.

2018 Winners

Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
ISBN: 9780399546457
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award!
La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya; Juana Martinez-Neal (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0399251561
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Illustrator Award Winner 2018
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
ISBN: 1101997257
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
Author Honor Book 2018
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
ISBN: 9780425290408
Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Author Honor Book 2018
All Around Us by Xelena Gonzalez; Adriana M. Garcia (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781941026762
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Illustrator Honor Book 2018
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown; John Parra (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780735842694
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor 2018, ALA Notable Children's Book 2018

2017 Winner

Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763672089
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
2017 Winner

Pura Belpre Award Winner ALSC page

Lowriders to the Center of the Earth by Gonzalez Raul (Illustrator); Cathy Camper
ISBN: 9781452123431
Publication Date: 2016-07-05
2017 Illustrator Award Winner
The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
ISBN: 9781481457507
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
2017 Author Honor Book
Esquivel! by Susan Wood; Duncan Tonatiuh (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781580896733
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
2017 Illustrator Honor Books
The Princess and the Warrior by Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419721304
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
2017 Illustrator Honor Books

2016 Winner

Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle; Edel Rodriguez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481435239
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Author Award Winner
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle; Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780544102293
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Illustrator Award Winner

More Past Winners

Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9780375851230
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle
ISBN: 9780805086744
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
The Poet Slave of Cuba by Margarita Engle; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0805077065
Publication Date: 2006-04-04
The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales
ISBN: 9780375840890
Publication Date: 2007-03-13
Doña Flor by Pat Mora; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0375923373
Publication Date: 2005-10-25
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 044023784X
Publication Date: 2004-04-13
Harvesting Hope by Kathleen Krull; Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0152014373
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN: 9780439120425
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
Under the Royal Palms by Alma Flor Ada
ISBN: 0689806310
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez (As told to)
ISBN: 0060267062
Publication Date: 1996-10-30
An Island Like You by Judith Ortiz Cofer
ISBN: 0531087476
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Stories of Puerto Rican immigrant kids experiencing the tensions between 2 cultures.

Past Winners

I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín; Lee White (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781416953449
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya; Susan Guevara (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399247675
Publication Date: 2014-04-10
The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
ISBN: 9780547807430
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
ISBN: 9781442408920
Publication Date: 2012-02-21
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
ISBN: 9781600604294
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Diego Rivera by Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9780810997318
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan; Peter Sís (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439269988
Publication Date: 2012-03-01