Jacqueline Woodson the New Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Leah Langby
January 5, 2018
Keeping Up With Kids

Jacqueline Woodson is the new Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a position appointed by the Librarian of Congress (with input from librarians, booksellers, educators, and children’s literature experts).  I am so excited to see what she does with her platform of “Reading = Hope x Change (What’s Your Equation?)”, which encourages young people to think about – and beyond – the moment we’re living in, the power they possess, and the impact reading can have on showing them ways in which they can create the hope and the change they want to see in the world.  Read more at the Every Child a Reader site!

And it’s not too late to take the Reading Without Walls Challenge, proposed by the 2016-2017 Ambassador, Gene Luen Yang.

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