Award Speeches: Recent submissions

  • 2023 Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Tonatiuh, Duncan (2023-06-25)
    Duncan Tonatiuh received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor for A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters (Abrams Books for Young Readers/ABRAMS). He delivered his acceptance remarks at the Pura ...
  • 2023 Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Quiles, Krystal (2023-06-25)
    Krystal Quiles received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor for The Coquíes Still Sing (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración ...
  • 2023 Belpré Children's Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Pérez, Celia C. (2023-06-25)
    Celia C. Pérez received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Children’s Author Honor for Tumble (Kokila/Penguin Random House). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración held Sunday, June 25, 2023, during ...
  • 2023 Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Sylvester, Natalia (2023-06-25)
    Natalia Sylvester received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Young Adult Author Honor for Breathe and Count Back from Ten (Clarion Books/HarperCollins). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración held ...
  • 2023 Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Lora, Loris (2023-06-25)
    Loris Lora received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor for Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Corteza (HarperCollins Children’s Books). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré ...
  • 2023 Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Ortega, Mirelle (2023-06-25)
    Mirelle Ortega received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor for Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land (Cameron Kids/Cameron + Company/ABRAMS). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración ...
  • 2023 Belpré Children's Author Award Acceptance Speech 
    Ortega, Claribel A. (2023-06-25)
    Claribel A. Ortega received the 2023 (Pura) Belpré Children’s Author Award for Frizzy (First Second/Macmillan Children's Publishing). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración held Sunday, ...
  • 2023 Belpré Children's Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    González, Karina Nicole (2023-06-25)
    Karina Nicole González received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Children’s Author Honor for The Coquíes Still Sing (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award ...
  • 2023 Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Gomera-Tavarez, Camille (2023-06-25)
    Camille Gomera-Tavarez received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Young Adult Author Honor for High Spirits (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración ...
  • 2023 Belpré Youth Illustrator Award Acceptance Speech 
    Garcia, Adriana M. (2023-06-25)
    Adriana M. Garcia received the 2023 (Pura) Belpré Youth Illustrator Award for Where Wonder Grows (Cinco Puntos Press/LEE & LOW). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración held Sunday, June ...
  • 2023 Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Fajardo, Kat (2023-06-25)
    Kat Fajardo received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor for Srta. Quinces (Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.). They delivered their acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración held Sunday, June ...
  • 2023 Belpré Children's Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Briseño, Stephen (2023-06-25)
    Stephen Briseño received a 2023 (Pura) Belpré Children’s Author Honor for The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border (Random House Studio/Random House Children’s Books/Penguin Random House). He delivered his ...
  • 2023 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech 
    Salati, Doug (2023-06-25)
    Doug Salati received the 2023 Randolph Caldecott Medal for "Hot Dog" (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books). He delivered his acceptance remarks during the Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Banquet held ...
  • 2023 Geisel Award Acceptance Speech 
    Emberley, Michael (2023-06-26)
    Michael Emberley received the 2023 (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award for "I Did It!" (I Like to Read® Comics/Holiday House). He delivered his acceptance remarks during the ALSC Awards Program held Monday, June 26, 2023, during ...
  • 2023 Sibert Medal Acceptance Speeches 
    Partridge, Elizabeth; Tamaki, Lauren (2023-06-26)
    Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki received the 2023 Robert F. Sibert Medal for "Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration" ...
  • 2023 Legacy Medal Acceptance Speech 
    Ransome, James E. (2023-06-25)
    James E. Ransome received the 2023 Children’s Literature Legacy Award for his significant and lasting contribution to literature for children. He delivered his acceptance remarks at the Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Banquet ...
  • 2023 Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech 
    Luqman-Dawson, Amina (2023-06-25)
    Amina Luqman-Dawson received the 2023 John Newbery Medal for "Freewater" (JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, a division of Hachette Book Group). She delivered her acceptance remarks during the ...
  • 2022 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Mickelson, Marcia Argueta (2022-06-26)
    Marcia Argueta Mickelson received a 2022 (Pura) Belpré Young Adult Author Honor for Where I Belong (Carolrhoda Lab®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award ...
  • 2022 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Kemp, Laekan Zea (2022-06-26)
    Laekan Zea Kemp received a 2022 (Pura) Belpré Young Adult Author Honor for Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers). She delivered her acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración ...
  • 2022 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Acceptance Speech 
    Villa, Jonny Garza (2022-06-26)
    Jonny Garza Villa received a 2022 (Pura) Belpré Young Adult Author Honor for Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun (Skyscape). He delivered his acceptance remarks at the Pura Belpré Award Celebración held Sunday, June 26, ...

Search


Browse

My Account