Is our new ambassador for Young People's Literature. Author of such classics as Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins (an all-time favorite book when I was a child), Jacob I Have Loved, to just name a few, Patterson has now taken on this new position. Lucky us! She takes over where Jon Scieszka left off.
The Children's Book Council just announced Patterson has embarked on a writing project and she will be writing monthly essays over the two year tenure of this post about her work writing for children to be published by Clarion Books entitled, Read for Your Life: Speeches and Writings of Katherine Paterson. Each essay will be available for download individually or by subscription. At the end of the two years, they will be published in a paperback edition.
Click here to get to a the Children's Book Council website, where you can download the first essay free (but only until May 24th, so hurry!
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