From: Julie Kline <jkline_at_uwm.edu>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:25:56 -0500

Good afternoon,

The Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invite you to the presentation of

The Amйricas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) to

*Yuyi Morales* for */Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book /* (Roaring Brook Press / A Neal Porter Book, 2008)

and

*Margarita Engle * for */The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom/** *(Holt, 2008)

Saturday, October 17, 2009// 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 a.m.

/Accommodations for individuals with disabilities are available upon request./

The Amйricas 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://www4.uwm.edu/clacs/aa/index.cfm


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Julie Kline Coordinator, Amйricas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature 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/CLACS
Received on Thu 01 Oct 2009 03:25:56 PM CDT