1998 Pure Belpre Award Winning books

• Parrot From the Oven: mi vida by Victor Martinez**
• Snapshots From the Wedding by Gary Soto**
• Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems by Francisco X. Alarcón*
• Spirits of the High Mesa by Floyd Martinez*
• In My Family/En mi Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza*
• The Golden Flower: a Taino Myth from Puerto Rico by Nina Jaffe and Enrique Sánchez*
• Gathering the Sun: an Alphabet in Spanish and English
  by Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva*

** author/illustrator award winner
* author/illustrator honor winner