Pura Belpré Award winners (2025-1996)
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- Shut Up, This Is Serious / Ixta, Carolina (young adult author award)
- Lola / Valenti, Karla (children's author award)
- Saints of the household / Tison, Ari (young adult author award)
- Mexikid : a graphic memoir / Martin, Pedro (children's author award)
- Burn down, rise up / Tirado, Vincent (young adult author award)
- Frizzy / Ortega, Claribel A. (childern's author award)
- Where wonder grows / Garcia, Adriana M. (illustrator award)
- How Moon Fuentez fell in love with the universe / Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel (young adult author award)
- The last cuentista / Higuera, Donna Barba (childern's author award)
- ¡Vamos! Let's cross the bridge / Raúl the Third (illustrator award)
- Furia / Méndez, Yamile Saied (young adult author award)
- Efrén divided : a novel / Cisneros, Ernesto (childern's author award)
- ¡Vamos! Let's go eat! / Raúl the Third (illustrator award)
- Sal & Gabi break the universe / Hernandez, Carlos Alberto (author award)
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln / López, Rafael (illustrator award)
- The poet X : a novel / Acevedo, Elizabeth (author award)
- Dreamers / Morales, Yuyi (illustrator award)
- Lucky broken girl / Behar, Ruth (author award)
- La princesa and the pea / Martinez-Neal, Juana (illustrator award)
- Juana & Lucas / Medina, Juana (author award)
- Lowriders to the center of the Earth / Raúl the Third (illustrator award)
- Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir / Engle, Margarita (author award)
- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / López, Rafael (illustrator award)
- I lived on Butterfly Hill / Agosín, Marjorie (author award)
- Viva Frida / Morales, Yuyi (illustrator award)
- Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass / Medina, Meg (author award)
- Niño wrestles the world / Morales, Yuyi (illustrator award)
- Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Sáenz, Benjamin Alire (author award)
- Martin de Porres : the rose in the desert / Diaz, David (illustrator award)
- Under the mesquite / McCall, Guadalupe Garcia (author award)
- Diego Rivera : his world and ours / Tonatiuh, Duncan (illustrator award)
- The dreamer / Ryan, Pam Muñoz (author award)
- Grandma's gift / Velasquez, Eric (illustrator award)
- Return to sender / Alvarez, Julia (author award)
- Book fiesta! : celebrate Children's Day/Book Day = celebremos El dia de los niños/El dia de los libros / López, Rafael (illustrator award)
- The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom / Engle, Margarita (author award)
- Just in case : a trickster tale and Spanish alphabet book / Morales, Yuyi (illustrator award)
- The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano / Engle, Margarita (author award)
- Los gatos black on Halloween / Morales, Yuyi (illustrator award)
- The tequila worm / Canales, Viola (author award)
- Dona Flor : a tall tale about a giant woman with a great big heart / Colon, Raul (illustrator award)
- Before we were free / Alvarez, Julia (author award)
- Just a minute : a trickster tale and counting book / Morales, Yuyi (illustrator award)
- Esperanza rising / Ryan, Pam Munez (author award)
- Chato and the party animals / Guevara, Susan (illustrator award)
- Under the royal palms : a childhood in Cuba / Ada, Alma Flor (author award)
- Magic windows = ventanas magicas / Garza, Carmen Lomas (illustrator award)
- Parrot in the oven : mi vida : a novel / Martinez, Victor (author award)
- Snapshots from the wedding / Garcia, Stephanie (illustrator award)
- An island like you / Ortiz Cofer, Judith (author award - not available in LINKcat)
- Chato's kitchen / Guevara, Susan (illustrator award)