Awards and Honors
Awarded the 2008 Pura Belpré Children’s Literature Honor Medal for writing The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos.
(http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpremedal/index.cfm)
Awarded the 1996 ALA/ALSC Pura Belpré Children’s Literature Honor Medal for writing The Bossy Gallito.
(http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpremedal/belprepast/index.cfm)
Selected by the USF/SLIS Alumni Society as the School’s 1998 “Outstanding Graduate”.
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