On television as both an actress and screenwriter, and now as an author of books for children, Maria (Sonia) continues to break boundaries and ask children and adults to feel-and re-see, re-think-beyond our comfort zones. The surprise speaker was Sonia Manzano and you might ask, “Who?” Sonia is better known as Maria, the very person who has been the delightful-and courageous-Maria on Sesame Street for the past forty-four years!Īnother surprise was that Sonia’s first children’s book, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, was this year’s Pura Belpre Honor Winner. One was an especially delightful surprise the second was a stirring and inspiring description of the twenty-five 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society winners. Author Nancy Bo Flood and Sonia Manzano, author and Maria on Sesame Street, met at the 2015 International Literary Association conference.Ī shining star session at ILA (International Literacy Association) was Sunday’s review of the Notable Books for a Global Society-for two reasons.
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