Punching the Airand
When Stars Are Scattered
The sixth annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature were announced.
We Need Diverse Books announced the sixth annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature. The awards are named for children’s and young adult author Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014) and commemorate his memory and literary legacy, as well as celebrate diversity in children’s literature.
The Walter Awards are giving in two categories: teen (age 13-18) and younter reader (age 9-13). On winner and two Honor Books were selected for each category.
2021 Walter Awards
Teen Winner
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, illustrated by Omar T. Pasha
Teen Honors
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Younger Readers Winner
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, with color by Iman Geddy
Younger Readers Honors
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
We Need Diverse Books also announced its sixth annual Symposium on diversity in children’s literature, co-hosted by the Library of Congress (LOC), on Friday March 12. The Symposium, titled “Listening, Learning, Creating Communities,” will be moderated by Deborah D. Taylor, Coretta Scott King Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement award-winning librarian and educator, and will include Walter Award-winning panelists Traci Chee, Robin Ha, Daniel Nayeri, and Kacen Callender.
The virtual Symposium will be followed by the Walter Awards ceremony. Author Laurie Halse Anderson will serve as ceremony emcee. The event will stream on LOC's Library’s Facebook page and its YouTube site.
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