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SPRINGFIELD \u2014 \u201cGood morning, Springfield!\u201d was how 7 Arts Latino Foundation Executive Director Jorge Martinez greeted the people inside Union Station on Saturday morning. <\/p>\n
He announced the official start of the second annual Latino Book Fair, which welcomed more than 20 authors to the city\u2019s main transportation hub. The chairs for sitting in Union Station\u2019s central hub were gone, replaced by booths with authors showcasing their work.<\/p>\n
Among the authors was Liliana P. Arendano, whose picture book, \u201cEl Se\u00f1or Libro y el Pececillo de Plata\u201d \u2014 or \u201cMr. Book and the Silverfish\u201d \u2014 teaches children about the importance of reading and taking care of their books. Arendano wrote the original version of her book when she was a student, and at her booth, she had the original version of her work \u2014 complete with her childhood drawings \u2014 available for people to see.<\/p>\n
A few booths down, Maria Rodriguez Bross was eager to talk about her \u201cBodega Botanica Tales\u201d book series with those that stopped by. The series is about six children who go to the bodega, and each of them ends up with a bracelet that takes them into an alternate universe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey go through this portal where they get one wish, kind of like a \u2018genie in the bottle story,\u2019 and they have to live with their wish, whatever that wish was,\u201d Bross said, adding that, \u201cTheir wish comes true, but it comes with consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
The noise of authors talking about their books and people passing through in their commutes went quiet when Martinez took to the microphone to thank everyone for supporting the Latino Book Fair. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our passion. This is our mission to deliver to the city of Springfield arts and culture,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is how we unite the community. This is how we can change society.\u201d<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.masslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SPRINGFIELD \u2014 \u201cGood morning, Springfield!\u201d was how 7 Arts Latino Foundation Executive Director Jorge Martinez greeted the people inside Union Station on Saturday morning. He announced the official start of the second annual Latino Book Fair, which welcomed more than 20 authors to the city\u2019s main transportation hub. The chairs for sitting in Union Station\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159961,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159960\/revisions\/2159961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}