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Film, Video 2006 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

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Title

  • 2006 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Summary

  • Authors Margarita Engle and Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren and illustrators Sean Qualls and Nicole Tadgell received the 2006 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the 14th annual award presentation hosted by the Library of Congress Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book. The award is sponsored by the Consortium of the Latin American Studies Program (CLASP) at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Engle and Qualls were honored for their book "The Poet Slave of Cuba" (Henry Holt, 2006). Elvgren and Tadgell were recognized for their book "Josias, Hold the Book" (Boyds Mill, 2006). The Americas Award recognizes outstanding U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore or selected nonfiction published in the previous year. The works must "authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean or Latinos in the United States." For more information about the Americas Award and CLASP, visit this site.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress. Hispanic Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2007-10-06.

Headings

  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Margarita Engle, Sean Qualls, Jennifer Elvgren, Nicole Tadgell.
  • -  Recorded on 2007-10-06.
  • -  Kids, Families.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687883

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-06, 2007. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687883/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. & Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division, S. B. (2007) Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-06. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687883/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-06, 2007. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687883/>.