{"id":35965,"date":"2019-03-19T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35965"},"modified":"2019-03-19T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:50:08","slug":"review-of-planting-stories-by-anika-aldamuy-denise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35965","title":{"rendered":"Review of Planting Stories, by Anika Aldamuy Denise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/planting_stories_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/planting_stories_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36034\" \/><\/a><em>Planting Stories<\/p>\n<p>The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpr\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Anika Aldamuy Denise<br \/>\nillustrations by Paola Escobar<\/p>\n<p>Harper, 2019.  36 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<br \/>\nReview written February 13, 2019, from a library book<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a picture book biography of Pura Belpr\u00e9, who has a children\u2019s book award named after her for outstanding works of literature by Latinx authors and illustrators.<\/p>\n<p>In 1921, Pura Belpr\u00e9 was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.  She was hired to find books and create programs at the Harlem branch that would appeal to the neighborhood\u2019s growing Spanish-speaking community.<\/p>\n<p>Since Pura didn\u2019t find any stories from Puerto Rico on the library shelves, she told the stories herself.  She ended up creating puppets to go with them and authoring several books based on those stories.<\/p>\n<p>This book, with particularly beautiful illustrations, celebrates the difference a librarian made to an entire community, while telling more of the background of her life.<\/p>\n<p>I was glad to discover the story of the person honored by the award.  Yes, she was someone who got stories into the minds and hearts of Latinx children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anikadenise.com\/\">anikadenise.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/childrens\/\">harpercollinschildrens.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062748688\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/planting_stories.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/planting_stories.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpr\u00e9 by Anika Aldamuy Denise illustrations by Paola Escobar Harper, 2019. 36 pages. Starred Review Review written February 13, 2019, from a library book Here\u2019s a picture book biography of Pura Belpr\u00e9, who has a children\u2019s book award named after her for outstanding works of literature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36035,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions\/36035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}