2008 Pure Belpre Award Winning books

• The Poet-Slave of Cuba: a Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
  by Margarita Engle**
• Frida: Viva La Vida! Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand*
• Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: a Cuban Folktale
  by Carmen Agra Deedy*
• Los Gatos Black on Halloween
  by Marisa Montes* illustrated by Yuyi Morales**
• My Name is Gabito: the Life of Gabriel Garcia Márquez
  by Monica Brown*
• My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo
  by Maya Christina Gonzalez*

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