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The Pura Belpré Award And The Portrayal Of Disability, Zoe Houser
The Pura Belpré Award And The Portrayal Of Disability, Zoe Houser
Honors Program Theses
The Pura Belpré Award is one of the lesser known literary awards. Because other literary awards have been around longer and received a large amount of attention, there has been much research done over the other literary awards, including how the award books portray disabled characters within their pages. However, there is a lack of research about the portrayal of disability in books that have been awarded or honored by the Pura Belpré Award.
This paper will address the question of how many Pura Belpré Award winning books include prominent characters with disabilities and if they are portrayed positively or …