text: Women authors -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature (1)
  2) Zora Hurston and the chinaberry tree
  4) The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown
  JB BROWN M
  5) Astrid Lindgren
  JB LINDGRE A
  2020. Frances Lincoln Children's Books 28 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. English
  Little Astrid grew up on an old farm in Sweden. Her childhood was very happy, so happy that she never wanted to grow up. When she was four, her friend Edit read Astrid her first story. Suddenly, the entire place was filled with giants, witches and fairies. They all came out from a magic object call a book. Astrid did her best to learn how to read, and once she started, she couldn't stop! Soon, there were no books left to borrow from the library and...
  JB BELPRE P
  An 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 Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos 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...
  7) My own two feet: a memoir
  YB CLEARY B
  [1996] Avon Books vi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm English
  8) Soaring earth: a companion memoir to Enchanted air
  [2019] First edition. Atheneum Books for Young Readers 157 pages ; 23 cm English
  Memoir in verse of Margarita Engle's teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. Addresses the notions of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection. A companion and follow-up to Engle's work, Enchanted air. "In this follow-up to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable...
  9) La tierra al vuelo: una continuación de Aire encantado, su libro de memorias
  Y/SPA 811 ENGLE
  2020. Primera edición. Atheneum Books for Young Readers 161 pages ; 19 cm Español
  10) Maya Angelou: poet, performer, activist
  [2009] Compass Point Books 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. English
  12) Sembrando historias: Pura Belpré : bibliotecaria y narradora de cuentos
  J/SPA JB BELPRE P
  13) Enchanted air: two cultures, two wings : a memoir
  In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take...