THE PROMISE IN BOOKS: The award-winning writer and ILA Intensive keynote on family tradition and literary magic.

LIBRARY users; LIBRARIES & immigrants; ORAL interpretation; BOOKS & reading; MOTHER-child relationship; IMMIGRANTS; WOMEN authors; CHILDREN'S literature

The author recalls the oral tradition instilled in her by her mother through the visits they made to the public library in Bronx New York, City with her baby brother and older sister when she was just 6 or 7 years old. Topics covered include experience of listening to librarians as they read a story aloud, migration story of her mother who grew up in Corozal, Puerto Rico, role of her mother in her career as an author of children's books and the growth of diverse children's books.