Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award

Submitted by Sean Fitzpatrick on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 15:53

New to the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards in 2010 is the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement. In this video, award committee chair Barbara Clark discusses Virginia Hamilton’s contributions to literature, the award itself, and the inaugural winner, Walter Dean Myers. See more ALA videos at http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_focus/videos.