Manzano was the keynote speaker at the festival’s authors’ dinner March 11 at the University of Arizona, where she spoke about her role on “Sesame Street” and on the importance of books and literacy in children’s lives. People magazine also named Manzano one of America’s most influential Hispanics. Manzano also is the author of several picture books and her first novel, "The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano," was a 2012 Pura Belpré Honor Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012. Manzano has influenced the lives of millions of children since the 1970s through her work on “Sesame Street.”Īlong the way, she’s won 15 Emmy Awards and is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In fact, it was Trujillo-Farmer who invited Manzano to come to Tucson for the festival to talk about her new memoir, "Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx." Pima County Public Library librarian Margie Trujillo-Farmer, as a member of the festival’s author committee and co-chair of the library’s Nuestras Raices committee, was tasked with exactly that last month. There could be worse jobs at the annual Tucson Festival of Books than squiring around Sonya Manzano, better known to million of fans as Maria from the classic children’s television show, “Sesame Street.”
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