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- Pages from the Summer 1970 issue of New Jersey Libraries
Lillie Patterson presented with the first Coretta Scott King Book Award! - YALSA Perspectives: Coretta Scott King Awards Celebrate Forty Years - Where the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Meet YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults and the Michael L. Printz Award
By Deborah Taylor - Ebony Jet 40 Years and Counting, The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
By Deborah Taylor - Ebony Jet The 2009 Coretta Scott King Book Awards List
- The Dream Lives On - Deborah Taylor on Good Morning Maryland
- Baltimore Sun Read Street: Inside the Coretta Scott King book awards
- The Brown Bookshelf BBS Chats with Deborah Taylor
- The Brown Bookshelf Becoming Billie Holiday: Blog Tour
- The Brown Bookshelf Walter Dean Myers: 2009 Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
WBAI - Off The Page, Friday, March 20, 2009 11:00 am broadcast
Host Esther Armah explores with studio guests the legacy of racism with Black British author, Bernadine Evaristo and her book 'Blonde Roots,' with its twist on the transatlantic slave trade; also in the show a debate on how healthy is the Young Teen and Adult market in this troubled economic times, and how does the Coretta Scott King Book Awards feed the market as it celebrates its 40th year this year.
Visit the WBAI archive at http://archive.wbai.org to listen or download the program.- 77 SQUARE Librarian fights to make sure all kids are represented in books
By Karyn Saemann - Book Links Talking with Christopher Paul Curtis
By Dean Schneider - Book Links Talking with Jacqueline Woodson
By Dean Schneider - Book Links Talking with R. Gregory Christie
By Dean Schneider - Photo: Motivating young readers
"First Lady Michelle Obama talks to second grade students as she and her husband, President Barack Obama, get ready to read to a class at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington." Can you see the book she is sharing? (hint: it's one of the 2009 Coretta Scott King Book Awards recipients!) - ALA Youth Media Awards Webcast
- I Never Knew... Fall 2008
A Newsletter Highlighting African American Children's Literature
Featuring Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Ashley Bryan - Booklist Online The Coretta Scott King Book Award: 40 and Fabulous!
By Andrea Pinkney - Book Links The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
By Deborah Taylor - Book Links Talking with Tanya Bolden
By Terrell A. Young and Barbara A. Ward - Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee announces 2009 Book Donation Grant Winners
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee Chair Deborah Taylor on the Today's Show
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- Satia Orange on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards
- Satia Orange on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards
- Kadir Nelson, Floyd Cooper win 2009 Coretta Scott King Book Awards
- Kadir Nelson, We Are the Ship on BBC America