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Images from
the 2008 NBA Teen Press Conference
2008 National Book Award
Young People's Literature Finalists.
Photo © Joe
Pacheco
2008 National Book Award
Young People's Literature Finalists.
Photo © Joe
Pacheco
Sherrie Young,
NBF Dir. of Special Projects.
Photo © Joe
Pacheco
(L to R) Kathi Appelt, Judy
Blundell, and E. Lockhart.
Photo © Joe
Pacheco
(L to R) Laurie Halse Anderson,
Kathi Appelt,
and Judy Blundell.
Photo © Joe
Pacheco
November
18: “Stinky Cheese” Author Jon
Scieszka
To Host Popular 2008 NBA Teen Press Conference
Featuring 2008 National Book Award
Finalists:
Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains (Simon &
Schuster)
Kathi
Appelt, The Underneath (Atheneum)
Judy
Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic)
E.
Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
(Hyperion)
Tim
Tharp, The Spectacular Now (Alfred A. Knopf)
 On
Tuesday, November 18, the Library of Congress’s National
Ambassador of Young People's Literature, “Stinky Cheese”
author Jon Scieszka welcomed over 300 middle and high school
students from New York City public and private schools to
the auditorium of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture for the Foundation’s
popular National Book Awards Teen Press Conference.
Students
prepared for the event by reading one of the five Finalists'
books and drafting questions based on the text, the writing
life, and what it means to be a National Book Award Finalist.
At the event, each participating student received a professionally
designed press kit with biographical information on each author,
excerpts from their books, and materials related to the National
Book Awards.
Authors read from their work before
the floor was turned over to the students for the Press Conference,
when they interviewed the 2008 National Book Award Finalists
in Young People's Literature. Students had the opportunity to
meet the authors and had their books signed at a reception following
the event.
Funding for this program
is made possible through a generous grant from Con Edison.
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