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Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children's Literature Conference


Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children s Literature Conference
By Gnesis Villar
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Mar 11, 2021
On March 6, the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education in New York City hosted a virtual mini-conference on Latinx children’s literature. The conference’s third edition focused on Mexican American themes and featured David Bowles as the keynote speaker, who is the recipient of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for
They Call Me Güero and two Pura Belpré Honors.
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Alexandra Aceves, editor at Junior Library Guild, served as moderator for the first panel, starting off by introducing each author before interrogating the very idea of Mexican American identity, asking: “What does Mexican American mean to you and where do you find yourself situated within that category? How does ....

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