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Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: Expect the Unexpected
Dare Coulter. Photo: Joshua Steadman for WALTER Magazine. The first thing one learns about working with Dare Coulter is to expect the unexpected. Her beautiful world has its own rules of order and its own rhythms and rhymes. Adages, idioms, metaphors need to be rewritten. Case in point — for...
Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: A Higher Level
R. Alnita Coulter and Dare Coulter. Photo courtesy of R. Alnita Coulter. When my daughter Dare Coulter heard she had won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, she screamed. So did I, and the rest of our family, as we gathered around computer screens like they gathered around TV consoles...
Profile of 2024 CSK Author Award winner Ibi Zoboi
At Ibi Zoboi's 2014 graduation from the Writing for Children Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts: husband Joseph, son Zuber, daughters Abadai and Bahati, and mother Monique. Photo courtesy of Ibi Zoboi. My whole life, my mother has been an avid writer. Between leading writing workshops for teenage girls...
2023: The Year in Words and Pictures
Some of the most indelible imagery in Big, this year’s Caldecott Medal–winning title by Vashti Harrison, is of breaking free of constraints, as a protagonist who feels trapped “make[s] more space for herself,” emerging into a stunning double gatefold. Big was a BIG deal this year, with additional accolades including...
2024 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Christopher Paul Curtis
I am the father of three very young children: Ayaan, now thirteen, Ebyaan, now twelve, and my ten-year-old son, Libaan. The differences in our ages are such that strangers frequently approach me and tell me how sweet and well behaved my grandchildren are. This is not the sort of thing...
2024 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance by Dare Coulter
I just want to start by saying the real award for me is to be honored by all of you. To be in a room full of people who have fought the fight and have done the work that embodies what the Coretta Scott King Book Awards represent is humbling....
2024 CSK Author Award Acceptance by Ibi Zoboi
I have been writing and telling stories my entire adult life. My first love was journalism — what I consider to be truth-telling. Then I fell in love with spoken word poetry — what I consider to be testifying. The need to tell the truth and to testify has always...
ALA Awards 2024: Horn Book Reviews of the Winners
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Dave Eggers for The Eyes and the Impossible and Vashti Harrison for Big on January 22, 2024, at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Also announced at the gathering were the winners...
Reviews of the 2024 CSK Illustrator Award Winners
Winner An American Story by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dare Coulter Primary, Intermediate Little, Brown 56 pp. 1/23 9780316473125 $18.99 Alexander and Coulter have created a powerful counternarrative in their efforts to answer the question, “How do you tell a story about slavery?” Starting before Africans were forcibly brought to...
Reviews of the 2024 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp. 5/23 9780062888846 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99 Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what...
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