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From: Julie Kline <jkline>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:26:19 -0500
Dear CCBC-Net community,
We welcome individuals from the Washington, D.C. area to the following event:
The Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invite you to the presentation of The Americas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP).
The award will be presented to writer, teacher, poet, performance artist Juan Felipe Herrera for his book Cinnamon Girl: letters found inside a cereal box (HarperCollins, Joanna Cotler Books, 2005).
Herrera, who previously won the Americas Award for Crashboomlove (1999), holds the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Saturday, September 16, 2006 10am-noon
Mumford Room, James Madison Memorial Building Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C.
R.S.V.P. by telephone
202-707-2013
Continental breakfast at 9:30 am
.
Accommodations for individuals with disabilities are available upon request.
The Am?ricas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. See: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/americas.html
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:26:19 -0500
Dear CCBC-Net community,
We welcome individuals from the Washington, D.C. area to the following event:
The Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invite you to the presentation of The Americas Award for Children and Young Adult Literature by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP).
The award will be presented to writer, teacher, poet, performance artist Juan Felipe Herrera for his book Cinnamon Girl: letters found inside a cereal box (HarperCollins, Joanna Cotler Books, 2005).
Herrera, who previously won the Americas Award for Crashboomlove (1999), holds the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Saturday, September 16, 2006 10am-noon
Mumford Room, James Madison Memorial Building Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C.
R.S.V.P. by telephone
202-707-2013
Continental breakfast at 9:30 am
.
Accommodations for individuals with disabilities are available upon request.
The Am?ricas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. See: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/americas.html
-- Julie K. Kline Outreach and Academic Program Coordinator Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 229-5986 phone (414) 229-2879 fax jkline at uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACSReceived on Fri 01 Sep 2006 10:26:19 AM CDT
