It’s graduation season in America, one that has been made unusually dramatic and occasionally inspiring by university ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you? These biographies for kids are inspirational narrative nonfiction texts that ...

Myers’ books were usually narrated by teenagers ... In honor of his foster parents, he took the pen name Walter Dean Myers. Over 6 feet tall by middle school, he was a basketball star but ...

It was held together by tape — literally. And then, We Need Diverse Books changed my life. Thanks to their Walter Dean Myers Grant, I was able to purchase a new computer that I used to finish my ...

The winners and honorees of the eighth annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature have been announced. The honors are selected by the We Need Diverse Books Walter ...

Author Walter Dean Myers (August 12, 1937-July 1 ... Myers grew up in New York City’s Harlem district, where he hid his love for books and reading from other children. A high school teacher ...

Walter Dean Myers, 76, is recognized for his young adult ... a Caldecott Honor artist, on picture books for younger readers, such as “We Are America” and “Looking Like Me.” ...

Walter Dean Myers: The late and storied author wrote more than 100 books, from picture books to YA to nonfiction. He was awarded the ALA's Margaret A. Edwards Award for his body of work.

The Walter Dean Myers Award, also known as “The Walter,” is named for prolific children’s and young adult author Walter Dean Myers — writer of classic children's books including Monster ...

Ideas for future books bubble out of Reynolds ... When people ask how he can possibly be so prolific, he cites the advice Walter Dean Myers gave him the first time they met.

Writers and scholars have bemoaned the whiteness of children’s books for decades, but the topic took on new life in 2014, when the influential black author Walter Dean Myers and his son ...