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Gr 1–4—As a child, Pura Belpré heard many entertaining songs and stories from her family about funny characters in comic situations in her native Puerto Rico. When she moved to New York in 1920 and started working at the library as the first Puerto Rican librarian, she never forgot these stories. During her story times, the families would laugh, and sing and cry, even though these were not stories found in any books there. While telling the stories, Belpré realized that none of the listeners looked like her, so she went and found them;...Log In or Sign Up to Read More