Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2024
Watch a 25th anniversary Pura Belpré video montage.
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 1996 -- portraying, affirming, and celebrating the Latino cultural experience
Sponsored by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), and REFORMA
![Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/4.jpg)
- 3,809 Resources including
- 414 Videos
- 289 Book Readings
- 391 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 162 book results
![Dreamers](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0823440559.jpg)
![Poet X, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0062662805.jpg)
![Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0544102290.jpg)
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
(Illustrator Winner, 2016)
53 Resources14 Awards
![Esperanza Rising](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0613538072.jpg)
![Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419710540.jpg)
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
(Illustrator Honor, 2015)
47 Resources16 Awards
![Efrén Divided](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0062881701.jpg)
![Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1419716476.jpg)
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
(Illustrator Honor, 2016)
46 Resources20 Awards
![Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/75918_hi.jpg)
![My Papi Has a Motorcycle](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/052555341X.jpg)
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña
(Illustrator Honor, 2020)
42 Resources13 Awards
![Last Cuentista, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1646140893.jpg)
![Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0152014373.jpg)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales
(Illustrator Honor, 2004)
41 Resources9 Awards
![Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481435221.jpg)
![Lightning Dreamer, The: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547807430.jpg)
![Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0062748688.jpg)
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar
(Author Honor, 2020)
40 Resources11 Awards
![Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/67001_hi.jpg)
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
(Illustrator Winner, 2020)
40 Resources6 Awards
![Poet Slave of Cuba, The: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805077065.jpg)
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle and Sean Qualls
(Author Winner, 2008)
39 Resources5 Awards
![Dreamer, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0439269709.jpg)
![Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/78225_hi.jpg)
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua
by Gloria Amescua and Duncan Tonatiuh
(Author Honor, 2022)
39 Resources12 Awards
![Viva Frida](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1596436034.jpg)
![Storyteller's Candle / La velita de los cuentos, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0892392223.jpg)
The Storyteller's Candle / La velita de los cuentos
by Lucia M. Gonzalez and Lulu Delacre
(Author Honor, 2009)
(Illustrator Honor, 2009)
37 Resources11 Awards
![Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0763658596.jpg)
![Bright Star](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/77662_hi.jpg)
![Mango, Abuela, and Me](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0763669008.jpg)
Mango, Abuela, and Me
by Meg Medina and Angela Dominguez
(Author Honor, 2016)
(Illustrator Honor, 2016)
36 Resources7 Awards
![Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1419736825.jpg)
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
(Author Honor, 2020)
36 Resources11 Awards
![Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/72097_hi.jpg)
![Los Gatos Black on Halloween](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805074295.jpg)
Los Gatos Black on Halloween
by Marisa Montes and Yuyi Morales
(Author Honor, 2008)
(Illustrator Winner, 2008)
35 Resources6 Awards
![Surrender Tree, The: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0805086749.jpg)
![They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1947627066.jpg)
![Princess and the Warrior, The: A Tale of Two Volcanoes](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1419721305.jpg)
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes
(Illustrator Honor, 2017)
34 Resources10 Awards
![Juana & Lucas](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0763672084.jpg)
![Furia](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74431_hi.jpg)
![Mexikid](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/89522_hi.jpg)
![First Rule of Punk, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0425290409.jpg)
![¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1328557049.jpg)
![Firefly Letters, The: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0805090827.jpg)
![Under the Mesquite](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1600604293.jpg)
![Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1580896731.jpg)
Esquivel!: Space-Age Sound Artist
by Susan Wood and Duncan Tonatiuh
(Illustrator Honor, 2017)
32 Resources8 Awards
![Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/69704_hi.jpg)
Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
by Monica Brown and Elisa Chavarri
(Illustrator Honor, 2021)
32 Resources10 Awards
![Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0811837580.jpg)
Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
by Yuyi Morales
(Illustrator Winner, 2004)
31 Resources10 Awards
![Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1442408928.jpg)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(Author Winner, 2013)
31 Resources14 Awards
![Niño Wrestles the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1250062705.jpg)
![Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1419705830.jpg)
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale
(Author Honor, 2014)
(Illustrator Honor, 2014)
31 Resources10 Awards
![Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0735842698.jpg)
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
by Monica Brown and John Parra
(Illustrator Honor, 2018)
31 Resources7 Awards
![¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/132855726X.jpg)
![Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0892392355.jpg)
Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina
by Monica Brown and Sara Palacios
(Illustrator Honor, 2012)
30 Resources6 Awards
![Lucky Broken Girl](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0399546448.jpg)
![Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0805092404.jpg)
![Other Half of Happy, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1452169985.jpg)