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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...
Additional ALA Awards 2024
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon) The Talk by Darrin Bell (Holt) Maame by Jessica George (St. Martin's) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns [nehiyaw/Sucker Creek First Nation] (Doubleday) I Will Greet the Sun Again by...
2023 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Claudette S. McLinn
Good Sunday morning! It is so good to be together with family, friends, and colleagues in Chicago. I am appreciative and honored to stand before you to respectfully accept the 2023 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement as Practitioner. Past winners of this distinguished award include Dorothy L....
Additional ALA Awards 2023
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin (Pamela Dorman/Penguin Random House) Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager/HarperCollins*) I'm Glad My Mom...
2022 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Nikki Grimes
When I thought about what I wanted to say on this auspicious occasion, I knew where I wanted to begin, and where I wanted to end. I open with lines from Psalm 16:5-6. I thought about using a contemporary translation, but I prefer the poetry of the original — no...
Additional ALA Awards 2022
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates/Macmillan) The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins) The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, ACE (Berkley/Penguin Random House) The Library of...
2021 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Dorothy L. Guthrie
I am so honored to have my work recognized with this award. I want to thank chair Ida Thompson and the CSK–Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Jury for this honor. Virginia Hamilton has always been one of my favorite authors. I can still remember how I felt when I read...
Additional ALA Awards 2021
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press/Gallery Books/Simon) The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates/Macmillan) The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady (Scribner/Simon)...
Additional ALA Awards 2020
Alex Award [for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences] A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (Orbit/Hachette) Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh (Saga Press/Gallery Books/Simon) Dominicana by Angie Cruz (Flatiron/Macmillan) Gender Queer: A Memoir by...
2019 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Pauletta Brown Bracy
Good Coretta-Scott-King-Book-Awards-Breakfast-Sunday morning! I stand before you as the fifth recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in the category of practitioner and in the company of the distinguished colleagues who have come before me: Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, Demetria Tucker, Deborah D. Taylor, and Dr....
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