Citation: Yao, J. (2023, March 14). Countdown to the Walter Awards: The younger readers category winners & honorees. We Need Diverse Books. https://diversebooks.org/blog-countdown-to-the-walter-awards-the-younger-readers-category-winners-honorees/
This article is hosted on the We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) site, a non-profit that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote YA literature that reflects and honours the lives of all young people. This article is celebrating award winners and honorees of the Walter Awards 2023 in different younger read categories and sharing more about their books in their own words.
This is such a great source of information on authors’ experiences while writing their books, showing why it is so important that young adults have wide and varied access to books, and has a great discussion on misconceptions that authors hear about being an author or illustrator. Overall, this is an inspiring piece of information for other YA authors and YA specialists/librarians working on YA collections.