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November 26, 2014

Bookreporter.com Reader Cristina Vazquez Reports on the Miami Book Fair

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By Cristina Vazquez
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The Miami Book Fair  is now in its 31st year, and boasts more than 450 authors reading and discussing their work, including the Latin American and Spanish authors who participate in the IberoAmerican Authors Program. Unfortunately, Carol could not make it to Miami this year, but one of our readesr Cristina Vazquez (who Carol has been lucky to spend time with at the Fair in the past) was kind enough to share her commentary on the event. Here, she talks about some of the panels she attended (she learned some surprising information about one of her favorite authors) and the books she thinks will lend themselves to excellent book group discussion.

Cristina Vazquez

In her past life Cristina Vazquez was a reporter for El Nuevo Herald (the sister edition of The Miami Herald), Buenhogar (sister edition of Good Housekeeping) and GEMS Television, but always had the teaching bug inside her. For the last 17 years, she has made bilingual and foreign languages education hercalling and is now the Lead Teacher at the first public federally funded school in the country, Coral Way K-8 Center.

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Agnese Baruzzi

Baruzzi, Agnese

Qualified from the ISIA in Urbino in 2004, Agnese Baruzzi currently lives in Bologna, Italy. She has been working as an illustrator and has been publishing children's books since 2001 in several countries. She collaborates with advertising agencies and leads workshops for kids in schools and libraries.

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Clair Lamb

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Jeanette Winter

Jeanette Winter is the acclaimed author/illustrator of many highly regarded picture books, including The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq; Mama: A True Story in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama During a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mama; Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa; Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan; Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia; Henri’s Scissors, Mr. Cornell’s Dream Boxes, and most recently, Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan.

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Marlene Cole

Since learning to read, Marlene Cole has been an avid library patron. She is retired and loves the freedom of being able to indulge in whatever strikes her fancy --- so many books, so little time! Following a 10-year stint of European living, Marlene and her husband now live in beautiful and green Olympia, WA.

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Laura Hilger

Laura Hilger has been working for the same company now for 19 years and is currently a Parts Planner (supply chain management). She loves to read, garden and work on obedience with her dogs and five-month-old puppy (who is crazy!). Of course, she also loves audiobooks and wouldn’t even consider starting a cleaning project without a book in her ear!  

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Marcus Pfister

Marcus Pfister was born the 30th of July 1960 in Bern, Switzer-land. He attended the Art School of Bern and then completed an apprenticeship as a Graphic Designer. From 1981-1983 he worked as a Graphic Designer at the publicity agency Alexandre Ott in Zurich. He then took off six months and traveled across the United States, Canada and Mexico. When he re-turned to Switzerland he started working as an independent Graphic Artist. Between 1984 and 1985 he made the sketches for his first picture book THE SLEEPY OWL.

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Jess Costello

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Jessica Costello is a Writing, Literature and Publishing major and Marketing Communicationsminor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been published in the online literary magazine East Coast Ink, and briefly wrote for WERS, one of Emerson College's radio stations. After college, she plans to write novels and continue to graduate school to receive a Master's degree in Library and Information Science. She currently works as an Information Research Assistant atEmerson College's Iwasaki Library.

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Eric P. Rhodes

Eric P. Rhodes is a New York City graphic designer of the Bridge and Tunnel variety. He specializes in web design, semantic HTML/XHTML, CSS-driven layout, graphics and code optimization and search engine optimization.

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