FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We Need Diverse Books Announces the 2021 Symposium on Diversity in Children’s Literature and the Walter Dean Myers Awards and Honor Books for Outstanding Children’s Literature January 21, 2021 Press Contact: Alaina Lavoie, … [Read more...] about We Need Diverse Books Announces the 2021 Symposium on Diversity in Children’s Literature and the Walter Dean Myers Awards and Honor Books for Outstanding Children’s Literature
Walter Awards
Why Winning the Walter Award Means the World To Padma Venkatraman
By Padma Venkatraman This year, a day before I was scheduled to fly to Washington, DC, to receive the Walter Dean Myers Award for The Bridge Home in the company of friends and family and colleagues who had supported and believed in me for the past three decades in this country, the COVID-19 … [Read more...] about Why Winning the Walter Award Means the World To Padma Venkatraman
An Exclusive Look at Author/Illustrator Don Tate’s 2020 Walter Awards Art
Today we’re pleased to welcome author/illustrator Don Tate to the WNDB blog to discuss his art for the 2020 for Outstanding Children’s Literature and to offer an exclusive look at the art created for the ceremony. Tell us about the process of creating art for the 2020 Walter Awards. Did you … [Read more...] about An Exclusive Look at Author/Illustrator Don Tate’s 2020 Walter Awards Art