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Tag: Susan Middleton Elya

Pura Belpré Award Winner & New Voice: Juana Martinez-Neal on Alma and How She Got Her Name

Pura Belpré Award Winner & New Voice: Juana Martinez-Neal on Alma and How She Got Her Name

Posted on May 7, 2018January 4, 2019

By Traci Sorell

Juana Martinez-Neal is a force of nature already this year.

Having won the 2018 Pura Belpré Award for her illustrations in La Princesa and the Pea, written by Susan Middleton Elya (Putnam, 2017), she now has her own debut picture book,

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