Emma Otheguy

Emma Otheguy is the author of the picture book “Martí’s Song for Freedom/Martí y sus versos por la libertad” about Cuban poet and national hero José Martí, as well as the novel “Silver Meadows Summer” (April 2019). “Martí’s Song for Freedom” received five starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness. “Martí” received the International Literacy Association’s 2018 Children’s and Young Adult Book Award in Intermediate Nonfiction and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, and the Bank Street College of Education.

2019 Schedule

This speaker is scheduled to appear on our Children & Family stages at the Outdoor Fair