Visit the Youth Services Department of the Main Library and enjoy a colorful poster exhibit and documentary film, courtesy of CENTRO (the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY Hunter College, New York), chronicling the professional life of Pura Belpré, the first Puertorriqueña/Latina librarian of the New York Public Library System and renowned author/storyteller of Puerto Rican folklore. She is best known for her version of La Cucaracha Martina y el Ratoncito Pérez and for representing her stories with the help of handmade puppets. Belpré published over seven anthologies of folktales, a short novel and various translations, all targeted at young audiences. The captions and quotations in this exhibit are from her words as they appear in her papers and interviews which are part of CENTRO’s archival collections.