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Sonia Manzano
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Sonia Manzano

Sonia Manzano is best known as "Maria," one of the first Hispanic characters on Sesame Street, a role she has delighted in for more than twenty years. She has earned fifteen Emmy Awards as a member of the Sesame Street writing staff, and this is her picture book debut. Sonia Manzano lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. What would she bring on a trip to the lake? Sonia wouldn't dream of going to the lake without her harp!

A Box Full of Kittens will be released on June 05, 2007 in Hardcover
Jun 05, 2007
A Box Full of Kittens is now available in Hardcover
Jun 05, 2007
A Box Full of Kittens will be released on June 05, 2007 in
Jun 05, 2007
A Box Full of Kittens is now available in
Jun 05, 2007
No Dogs Allowed! will be released on May 08, 2007 in Trade Paperback
May 08, 2007
No Dogs Allowed! is now available in Trade Paperback
May 08, 2007
No Dogs Allowed! will be released on May 08, 2007 in
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No Dogs Allowed! is now available in
May 08, 2007
No Dogs Allowed! will be released on March 23, 2004 in Hardcover
Mar 23, 2004
No Dogs Allowed! is now available in Hardcover
Mar 23, 2004
No Dogs Allowed! will be released on March 23, 2004 in
Mar 23, 2004
No Dogs Allowed! is now available in
Mar 23, 2004
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No Dogs Allowed! has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
No Dogs Allowed! has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
No Dogs Allowed! has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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New York Post, November 5, 2009
...are still a show that’s based on the old concept of a neighborhood,” says South Bronx native Sonia Manzano, who has been playing Maria for 35 years and has also won 15 Emmys as a writer on the program. Manzano calls “Sesame Street” a very “New...
EMedia Wire, October 8, 2009
...celebrity readers including Mary Louise Parker, Mario Batali, Giada de Laurentiis, Jenna Bush Hager, Tiki Barber, Vince Vaughn, Sonia Manzano, Justin Bieber, Jennifer Stone and Madison Pettis. Other celebrities joining reading events across the country...
MySanAntonio, September 26, 2009
...read short fiction. The program is broadcast on Texas Public Radio's KSTX 89.1 FM. Borrego joined Sonia Manzano, best known for her role as Maria on ?Sesame Street,? and ?Shorts? host Isaiah Sheffer in reading works by Latino authors in honor of...
Springfield Sun, September 10, 2009
...s book authors as Ann Stott, Anne Rockwell, Betty Birney, Liz Wu, Eileen Spinelli, Jacqui Robbins, Lorijo Metz, Sonia Manzano and Alice Schertle, Phelan has been illustrating some very good stories indeed. Most notably, Phelan illustrated the 2007...
Piedmont Parent, September 9, 2009
...Roark Dowell, author of ?The Kind of Friends We Used to Be? from the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Sonia Manzano, who plays Maria on ?Sesame Street? and author of ?A Box Full of Kittens?; Winston-Salem Journal writer Kim Underwood, author of...
Piedmont Parent, September 2, 2009
...Roark Dowell, author of ?The Kind of Friends We Used to Be? from the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Sonia Manzano, who plays Maria on ?Sesame Street? and author of ?A Box Full of Kittens?; Winston-Salem Journal writer Kim Underwood, author of...
Piedmont Parent, August 28, 2009
...Roark Dowell, author of ?The Kind of Friends We Used to Be? from the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Sonia Manzano, who plays Maria on ?Sesame Street? and author of ?A Box Full of Kittens?; Winston-Salem Journal writer Kim Underwood, author of...
Piedmont Parent, August 28, 2009
...Roark Dowell, author of ?The Kind of Friends We Used to Be? from the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Sonia Manzano, who plays Maria on ?Sesame Street? and author of ?A Box Full of Kittens?; Winston-Salem Journal writer Kim Underwood, author of...
Strausnews, January 15, 2009
...and Snuffy); Fran Brill (Zoe and Prairie Dawn); and David Rudman (Baby Bear). Also on the panel are Sonia Manzano (Maria), Bob McGrath (Bob); and composer and writer Tony Geiss. Michael Davis, author of the just published ?Street Gang: The Complete...