Katherine Paterson : Books will nurture our souls in spite of technology
Former Guild President and highly acclaimed children’s author Katherine Paterson is the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Writing in the New York Daily News about the threat of technology, she writes of Plato's concern that poetry would be lost if people learned to read and write.
"It is as futile for us to fight technological advances as it was for Plato to battle literacy. Yet I have hope. I have seven grandchildren, all of whom are well-equipped with electronic gadgets. Yet all of them are readers - because their parents are readers who have read to them, because they have teachers who care about literature and librarians who introduce them to books they will enjoy and be enriched by."
Congratulations! Sy Montgomery 2010 Children's Book Guild
Nonfiction Award Winner
SLJ's Extra Helping: Sy Montgomery talks about tarantulas, orangutans and believing in her readers.
Sy Montgomery has been chased by a gorilla, bitten by a vampire bat, and assaulted by a nocturnal, flightless, endangered parrot. Armchair travelers who love to read about these kinds of encounters but shudder at experiencing them in person are fortunate that Sy is not only an adventurer – she’s a distinguished writer for adults and children who has been selected as this year’s winner of the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award.
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