Imagine being a child in 1920s New York City and walking into a library only to find someone speaking your language AND telling stories your own abuela told you. That was the magic of Pura Belpre. She was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City, a storyteller, and a trailblazer who planted "story seeds" that continue to bloom.

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