Author Meg Medina becomes the first Latina ambassador for young people's literature in the U.S.
“I’m pro-kid. I’m pro-library. I’m pro knowing about the world, and to that end I feel the strongest position we can be in is to be in conversation with kids about what they are reading,” she said.
But to Medina's daughter, whose first language is English, the word means “story me,” said Medina, who now lives in Richmond, Virginia. The word"cuento" means story in Spanish. Her mother had been a teacher for elementary-level students in Cuba, but in the U.S. she worked in a factory making transistors. The factory was a"sea of Latina ladies," Medina recalled.
"That, I think, is at the root of the community work I do. I just feel, whether as an author or member of my community here, you are not by yourself. ... You take from a community, but you give, as well," she said.
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