Katherine Paterson
Teens & Children Pavilion
12:30-1:10 pm
Book Signing
2:30-3:30 pm
Both a children's activist and a literacy-library advocate, author Katherine Paterson's books for young people are among the most-honored books in our time, are read around the world and have been translated into 21 languages. She is the winner of two National Book Awards, for The Master Puppeteer and The Great Gilly Hopkins; two Newbery Medals, for The Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob, Have I Loved; and one of the few American recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Children's Literature. She is author of “The Eyes and Ears of the Public” in Our White House: Looking In and Looking Out (Candlewick, September 2008). As board vice president of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, she works tirelessly to promote reading and books for children. She lives in Barre, Vermont.