As a child in postrevolutionary Cuba, Lucia Gonzalez would sit enthralled in the unelectrified dark as her great-aunt told stories. Growing up in Miami, she savored memories of that magic, which paved the way for her career as a children's librarian, storyteller, and writer. She's been reaching out to the Spanish-speaking children of South Florida and their parents since she started at Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) in 1991, where an all-day storytelling workshop made her fall in love with children's librarianship.
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