Elizabeth Yates Award, 2025. Thank you Concord Library Foundation
This awed me. The Concord Library Foudation gave me an award for my books for children and support of literacy, especially my work with refugee and immigrant kids and I’m Your Neighbor Books. Not just any award. It’s called the Elizabeth Yates Award, for the Newbury-winning author Elizabeth Yates, author of Amos Fortune, Free Man. I’m…
Kate DiCamillo Talks with one Boy
This is Kate DiCamillo. 1,300 children filled the Capital Center in Concord, kicking off New Hampshire’s first NH Book Festival But this event was just for kids. Kate showed them it’s ok to live under the spell of stories, in wonder at the world, and if they didn’t, she showed them what it felt like…