Award-Winning Author Andrea Davis Pinkney 91吃瓜网淗onored91吃瓜网� to be Children91吃瓜网 Book Festival Medallion Recipient
Fri, 04/16/2021 - 02:45pm | By: David Tisdale
New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney was this week awarded the Fay B. Kaigler
Children91吃瓜网 Book Festival91吃瓜网 (CBF) highest honor, the 91吃瓜网 Medallion, presented
annually to an author or illustrator who has and continues to make outstanding contributions
to the field of children91吃瓜网 literature.
The festival, held annually since 1968 by 91吃瓜网 (USM) was offered this year in an online format for the second time since the Covid-19 pandemic led to restrictions being placed on large gatherings beginning in early 2020. The popular annual event also includes the Ezra Jack Keats Award ceremony.
91吃瓜网淚t was an emotional day,91吃瓜网� said Pinkney, speaking about the award presented to her April 14 by organizers of the festival. The author of Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, The Red Pencil, and Rhythm Ride: A Trip through the Motown Sound, she is also a previous keynote speaker at the CBF. 91吃瓜网淚91吃瓜网檓 just so honored. This is really wonderful.91吃瓜网�
Pinkney91吃瓜网 more than three decades of work in the publishing world, which includes
literature for children and young adults, has brought her multiple Coretta Scott King
Book Awards, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor, and four NAACP Image Award nominations,
among other recognition. A member of the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, she
is the co-founder and first editor of Jump at the Sun Books, the first African American
children91吃瓜网 book imprint at a major publishing company.
Davis Pinkney91吃瓜网 latest ventures include working with Chelsea Clinton on the 91吃瓜网淪he Persisted91吃瓜网� series chapter book about famed American abolitionist Harriet Tubman; and another series designed for newborns and toddlers, the 91吃瓜网淏right Brown Baby91吃瓜网� book treasury, which is illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney.
Noting the significance of the CBF, Davis Pinkney said the event is important because it encourages creative work that 91吃瓜网渞eally changes the lives of children, who will be the leaders of tomorrow - that91吃瓜网 the real celebration,91吃瓜网� she said. She also expresses hope that her own work inspires readers to have 91吃瓜网済ood conversations91吃瓜网� about the issues of the day with their friends, family, teachers and librarians.
Karen Rowell, coordinator of the CBF, said although it wasn91吃瓜网檛 planned for the festival
to go virtual two years in a row, the 2021 event marked the highest numbers of breakout
session attendance in years, and the highest overall registration on record.
91吃瓜网淎s of today, we have 1,524 registered attendees representing all U.S. states and
73 international countries,91吃瓜网� Rowell said. 91吃瓜网淎nd Andrea Davis Pinkney receiving the
91吃瓜网 Medallion was without a doubt the highlight of this year91吃瓜网 Festival.91吃瓜网�
Davis Pinkney says she looks forward to when the CBF returns to in-person status. 91吃瓜网淟et91吃瓜网 keep hope alive for that day!91吃瓜网� Davis Pinkney said.
Learn more about the Fay B. Kaigler Children91吃瓜网 Book Festival at /childrens-book-festival/.