Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise workplace --Bulletin of the Center for

--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"[A] splendid edition

indoor sleep as winter's first snow coats the ground

her green designs are small and portable

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise workplace --Bulletin of the Center forAn 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