“Katherine Paterson’s books have blessed children and children’s literature by putting human faces on all kinds of characters. She’s made marginal children seem less marginal, foreign children less foreign, and hopeless children more hopeful. In addition to elevating children’s literature, Paterson’s books and stories have also inspired readers to elevate themselves and their world.” — […]
http://neustadtprize.org/2009-nsk-neustadt-laureate-vera-b-williams/
“For [Vera B.] Williams, writing begins and ends with being immersed in the human condition, and out of the world springs the text, refined by craft and discipline.”—Daniel Simon, WLT March 2010
Vera B. Williams Quote
“The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.” ― Vera B. Williams
Rise to the occasion – Virginia Euwer Wolff
“Rise to the occasion which is life!” — Virginia Euwer Wolff, 2011 NSK Laureate
http://neustadtprize.org/2011-nsk-neustadt-laureate-virigina-euwer-wolff/
“[Virginia Euwer] Wolff has a level of excellence in her use of pitch perfect language, form, and imagery that is unique and fitting to each story, [in] novels that move readers with the grace of acceptance and forgiveness, the luminosity of hope.” — Suzanne Fisher Staples
http://neustadtprize.org/2008-neustadt-prize-laureate-patricia-grace/
Grace’s stories make a shining and enduring place formed of the brilliant weave of Maori oral storytelling and contained within the shape of contemporary Western forms. We are welcomed in, and when we get up to leave, we have been well fed, we have made friends and family, and we are bound to understanding and […]
