Ambassadors

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