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McKissack and Dooley Honored with 2012 PEN Awards

By on August 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
Book Cover: Never Forgotten

Yesterday, young adult author Sarah Dooley and Newbery Honor-winning Patricia C. McKissack were named recipients of the 2012 Pen Literary Awards.

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Leo Dillon, the First African American Caldecott Winner, Dies at 79

By on May 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

Leo Dillon, the first African American to win the Caldecott Medal, died May 26 in Brooklyn, NY, following “complications of a sudden illness requiring lung surgery,” says Bonnie Verburg, his longtime editor at Scholastic’s Blue Sky Press. He was 79.

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