Celebrate the love of reading with local Latino authors and the National Museum of the American Latino at the museum's first Día del Niño: A Celebration of Children’s Storytime and Literacy.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Anna Lapera reads “Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice”

Anna Lapera is an author who has lived all over the world and is proud of her Guatemalan and Hawaiian-Filipino-German heritage. She teaches by day and writes stories in the early hours of the morning before the teaching day begins. Her debut novel, “Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice”, is a contemporary middle grade novel with a protagonist who’s full of determination and an activist heart.  

The event will be held in the General Motors Learning Lounge of the Molina Family Latino Gallery at the National Museum of American History. Registered attendees will receive a free signed copy of a book while supplies last. Registration is required through Eventbrite.

Space in the GM Learning Lounge is limited. If a registrant does not check in within 10 minutes of the program start time, the seat(s) will be given to people in the waiting line.

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ASL interpretation will be provided.

For questions, please email NMALeducation@si.edu.