The Last Cuentista
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The Last Cuentista is a middle-grade dystopian novel by Donna Barba Higuera, published October 12, 2021, by Levine Querido. The story follows Petra Peña who, along with her family and a few hundred ot
The Last Cuentista
Newbery Medal
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The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author
The Last Cuentista
…to keep her people's history alive. It was published in British English under the title The Last Storyteller in 2022. In 2022, the book won the Newbery Medal and Pura Belpré Award. The cover was illustrated by Raxenne Maniquiz. In 2061, twelve-year old Petra Peña, her seven-year-old brother Javier, and her…
Newbery Medal
Frederic G. Melcher first proposed the idea for the Newbery Award.
John Newbery, called "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market.
Hendrik Willem van Loon won the first Newbery Medal in 1922 for his book The Story of Mankind.