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🌱📚📖 COVER REVEAL 🌱📚📖 ¡Qué magnífico! We are thrilled to reveal Paola Escobar’s gorgeous cover for PLANTING STORIES: THE LIFE OF LIBRARIAN AND STORYTELLER PURA BELPRÉ by Anika Aldamuy Denise, hitting shelves January 2019! Preorder here!

Follow la vida y legado of the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City—the groundbreaking woman who influenced generations of storytellers. This extraordinary biography and immigrant story is perfect for the pioneers in your life, both young and old.

(Fun fact: Did you know that Pura is also known as the namesake of the Pura Belpré Award, the children’s book prize presented each year to a Latinx writer and illustrator whose work reflects the Latinx cultural experience?)

(Source: harpercollins.com)

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