Pura Belpre Medal Winners for Narrative
“The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian from the New York Public Library. As a children’s librarian, storyteller, and author, she enriched the lives of Puerto Rican children in the U.S.A. through her pioneering work of preserving and disseminating Puerto Rican folklore.”
| Year | Call Number | Author / Illustrator | Title |
| 2008 | Margarita Engle | The Poet Slave of Cuba | |
| 2006 | Viola Canales | The Tequila Worm | |
| 2004 | Julia Alvarez | Before We Were Free | |
| 2002 | jFic | Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza Rising |
| 2000 | Alma Flor Ada | Under the Royal Palms | |
| 1998 | YA | Victor Martinez | Parrot in the Oven |
| 1996 | Judith Ortiz Cofer | An Island Like You |
