Friday, September 12, 2008

The Storyteller's Candle/La Velita de los Cuentos

The Storyteller's Candle/La Velita de los Cuentos by Lucia M. Gonzalez, Lulu Delacre
It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and librarian named Pura Belpré arrives in their classroom, the children begin to understand just what a library can mean to a community.

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