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Wilder Award 2009
Ashley Bryan
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Ashley Bryan is the winner of the
2009 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, which honors an author or illustrator
whose books have made a significant and lasting contribution to
children’s literature. Ashley Bryan’s award-winning
works include Dancing Granny, Beat the Story-Drum,
Pum-Pum, and Beautiful Blackbird, which won the 2004
Coretta Scott King Book Award. Bryan has also received two other
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, six Coretta Scott King honors, the
1990 Arbuthnot Award, the 1993 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award,
the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen United States Nomination for illustration,
and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award.
   
More about Ashley Bryan
Interview
with Ashley Bryan by Sylvia & Kenneth Marantz (March/April
1988 Horn Book Magazine)
On
Poetry and Black American Poets by Ashley Bryan (February 1979
Horn Book Magazine)
Horn Book reviews
of Ashley Bryan's books
2009 ALA awards
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