Gonz�alez, Luc�ia M.

The storyteller's candle / Velita de los cuentos story Lucia Gonzalez ; illustrations by Lulu Delacre. La velita de los cuentos / cuento Lucia Gonzalez ; ilustraciones Lulu Delacre. - San Francisco : Children's Book Press, c2008. - 30 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Wilson's Children, January 2009 School Library Journal, April 2008 Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2009 Pub Weekly, April 2008 Booklist, March 2008 Horn Book, October 2008 Kirkus Review, April 2008 Library Media Connection, November 2008 Multicultural Review, March 2008

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpr�e, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta. Presented in English and Spanish.

2.6 K-3 Follett Library Resources


Text in English and Spanish.

Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2009

0892392223

2007027230


Belpr�e, Pura--Fiction.


Bilingual books--English-Spanish.
Librarians--Fiction.
Libraries--Fiction.
Puerto Ricans--Fiction.
Epiphany--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--History--Fiction.

PZ73 / .G5886 2008

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