{"id":22395,"date":"2015-04-06T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=22395"},"modified":"2015-04-07T09:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:08:36","slug":"literary-quinceanera-for-authors-my-very-own-roommi-propio-cuartito-to-be-held-in-ventura-on-april-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/literary-quinceanera-for-authors-my-very-own-roommi-propio-cuartito-to-be-held-in-ventura-on-april-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Quincea\u00f1era for author’s ‘My Very Own Room \/ Mi propio cuartito’ to be held in Ventura on April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APRIL-12.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22312\" title=\"APRIL 12\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APRIL-12-e1427994532302.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>VENTURA<\/strong> \u2014 In honor of Dia del Ni\u00f1o\/Dia del Libro (Day of the Child\/Day of the Book) the community of Ventura County is invited to a literary Quincea\u00f1era, a special birthday party for Amada Irma Perez\u2019s (Ventura) first picture book,<strong><em>\u00a0My Very Own Room\/Mi propio cuartito<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 12 at the Museum of Ventura County, 100 E. Main St., Ventura.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My Very Own Room\/Mi propio cuartito (<\/em><\/strong><em>Children<\/em><em>\u2019s Book Press 2000 now an imprint of Lee & Low Publishers)\u00a0<\/em>has won many awards and recognition including the Tom\u00e1s Rivera Mexican-American Children\u2019s Book Award, the Am\u00e9ricas Honor Book Award, the Parent\u2019s Guide to Children\u2019s Media Award, and has been honored by the States of Texas, Oregon and many cities in California, event organizers reported in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>In some Latino cultures the fifteenth birthday, especially of young girls, is celebrated instead of the sweet sixteenth. The literary quincea\u00f1era will be filled with traditional touches like music and birthday cake and will include readings by children, a Q&A and book signing by the author.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will have the opportunity to purchase books to donate to local schools and boys & girls clubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APRIL-12-2015.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22309\" title=\"APRIL 12 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APRIL-12-2015-e1427994579920.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a>The author, Amada Irma Perez, who works towards multicultural understanding through the publication of diverse bilingual books, was a classroom teacher for more than twenty-five years in Ventura and Oxnard.\u00a0 She taught graduate classes at Cal Lutheran, Thousand Oaks and UCSB.\u00a0 She presented keynotes, visited schools, taught Young Writers\u2019 Camps and led writing workshops and retreats in at least twenty-five states and Mexico, Europe, Africa and China. She has published six other books and is included in several children\u2019s anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be an exhibit of the story behind the story with artwork, photos, manuscripts and memorabilia on First Friday (April 3, 6-8 p.m.) along with the work of Kathleen Contreras, local author of children\u2019s books, in the Tool Room Gallery of the Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amadairmaperez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.amadairmaperez.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURA \u2014 In honor of Dia del Ni\u00f1o\/Dia del Libro (Day of the Child\/Day of the Book) the community of Ventura County is invited to a literary Quincea\u00f1era, a special birthday party for Amada Irma Perez\u2019s (Ventura) first picture book,\u00a0My…<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/literary-quinceanera-for-authors-my-very-own-roommi-propio-cuartito-to-be-held-in-ventura-on-april-12\/\">Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1126,12,13,9,7,1006,1711,5,360],"tags":[309,1976,17,1977],"class_list":["post-22395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-educacion","category-education","category-en-espanol","category-entertainment","category-events","category-family","category-local","category-news","category-youth-2","tag-amada-irma-perez","tag-dia-del-ninodia-del-libro","tag-museum-of-ventura-county","tag-my-very-own-roommi-propio-cuartito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22530,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395\/revisions\/22530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}