Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise workplace her green designs are small

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Families have built retreats since the late 1800s

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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise workplace her green designs are smallAn inspiring picture book biography of storyteller, puppeteer, and New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, who championed bilingual literature. When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpr carried the cuentos folklricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown into a