Sentences with phrase «american authors and illustrators»

Coretta Scott King Book Awards The Coretta Scott King Book Awards honor African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that communicate the African American experience.

PEEK: «Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.

, which recognizes African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults.

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards honor African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to the African American experience via literature and illustration.

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award («recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults»): Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Balzer + Bray)

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults:

Given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream.

The ALA's Coretta Scott King Book Awards, which recognize an African American author and an illustrator of outstanding youth books, went to author Jacqueline Woodson for «Brown Girl Dreaming» (Nancy Paulsen Books) and illustrator Christopher Myers for «Firebird» (G.P. Putnam's Sons).

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Ron Miller is an award - winning illustrator and author whose work has appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic and Smithsonian, among many other publications, as well as in the definitive editions of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

Association of Authors» Representatives (AAR) Events National Book Awards Ceremony and Gala National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards The James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards Dinner Nebula Awards Weekend — Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Romance Writers of America (RWA) Annual Conference Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Annual Conferences American Libraries Association Conferences Public Libraries Association Conference

Open to authors, illustrators, and publishers of children's books written in English or Spanish and intended for the North American market.

Fans of kid lit look forward to the Youth Media Awards every year, in which the American Library Association announces the year's best children's book authors and illustrators in a variety of categories.

PEEK: ``... honors the author (s) and illustrator (s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children's literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.»

In this powerful view of African American history, award - winning author and illustrator Nelson combines 44 arresting, full - page paintings with the fictionalized, informal narrative of an African American elder.

Authors, illustrators, publishers and self - publishers of Christian books written in English and intended for the North American market may enter.

The award is presented annually and in even years (i.e. 2012, 2014, 2016...) to an African American author, illustrator or author / illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and / or young adults who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution.

The Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement is presented in even years to an African American author, illustrator or author / illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and / or young adults, and who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution.

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given annually to the author (s) and illustrator (s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.

As well as celebrating McCloskey's achievements as author - illustrator, the retrospective also includes a selection of his independent work connecting him to prominent American painters such as Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper.

As striking for their overwhelmingly yellow palette as for their fantastical imagery, Bohl's drawings invoke the signature style of British author and illustrator Aubrey Beardsely (1872 - 1898), who, along with American writer Henry Harland (1861 - 1905) co-edited The Yellow Book (1894 - 97), a leading British arts and literary periodical associated with Aestheticism and Decadence that helped define the last decade of the 19th century as «The Yellow Nineties.»

Kate Schatz and Miriam Stahl Klein, the author and illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z, discussed their «explosive» feminist children's book.

Eyvind Earle was a famous American illustrator and author, best known for his styling of legendary Disney animated films throughout the 1950s.

She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a popular author and illustrator.