Ambassadors

Carole Lindstrom
Caldecott Award winning and NYTimes bestselling author
Todd Mitchell
American Fiction Award winning author
Alan Hesse
Founder of Captain Polo Academy; Author and illustrator
Barbara Henderson
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite shortlisted author
Emma Reynolds
Founder of #KidLit4Climate, author-illustrator
Steven Weinberg
YALSA Reader’s Choice Award Winner, Parents Magazine Best Children’s Book Award Winner
Adam Gidwitz
Newbery Medal award winning author
Jon Scieszka
First U.S. Library of Congress-nominated National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Shaun Tan
Academy Award, Hugo Award, and Kate Greenaway Award-winning author-illustrator
Vandana Singh
Climate Imagination Fellow, PhD in particle physics, author of Ambiguity Machines
Fiona Barker
Author of Setsuko and the Song of the Sea
David Bouchard
Award-winning author and Order of Canada inductee
Kate Messner
Green Earth Book and E.B. White Read Aloud Award-winning author
Katherine
Newbery Medal winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author
David Wiesner
Three time Caldecott Medal-winning author-illustrator
Jason Chin
Caldecott Medal and Orbis Pictus Award winning author-illustrator
David Bowles
Pura Belpré and Walter Dean Myers Honors winning author
Julie Flett
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winning Author-Illustrator
Karina González
Pura Belpré Honor winning author and speech pathologist
Margarita Engle
Newbery Honor winner, multiple Pura Belpré Medalist, and Poetry Foundation's 6th Young People's Poet Laureate
Eliot
Stonewall and Printz Awards Honor winning author