Celebrating and Inspiring Young Voices: A Chat With Jason Reynolds

Award-winning author Jason Reynolds, the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, was selected as the speaker for the 2020 Children's Literature Assembly Breakfast at the NCTE Annual Conference (moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Despite the challenges of last...

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Published in:Journal of children's literature 2020-10, Vol.46 (2), p.66-72
Main Authors: Alaniz, Cynthia, Bedford, April Whatley
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authors
Authorship
Awards
Book awards
Chat
Children & youth
Childrens literature
Conferences (Gatherings)
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Creativity
Interviews
Intuition
King, Coretta Scott (1927-2006)
Literary influences
Literature
Novels
Pandemics
Poetry
Publishing
Publishing industry
Racial Differences
Readers
Short stories
Students
Teaching
Writers
Writing
Young adults
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Summary:Award-winning author Jason Reynolds, the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, was selected as the speaker for the 2020 Children's Literature Assembly Breakfast at the NCTE Annual Conference (moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Despite the challenges of last spring, we continued to prepare enthusiastically for the annual Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) Breakfast event, moving forward by interviewing our featured speaker: celebrated author Jason Reynolds. Jason Reynolds, an award-winning poet and author of books for both young adult (YA) and middle-grade readers, currently serves as the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. In April of 2020, as part of his "Grab the Mic: Tell Your Story" platform as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Reynolds, in partnership with the Library of Congress, launched "Write, Right, Rite," an online video series designed to spur creativity and inspire young people to express themselves through writing.
ISSN:1521-7779