A Is for Anansi ~ Part I
I’m in total HSP overload right now from having been out of the house for twelve hours straight…but those were some of the best twelve hours I’ve spent in ages! The A Is for Anansi conference was GREAT, and I’ve got lots to share but for now thought I’d post some of the photos I took at the award ceremony/reception earlier this evening. As keynote speaker Andrea Davis Pinkney said on Friday night, we’ve got a lot to celebrate AND a lot of work still to do.
Dr. Nancy Tolson & her husband, Kenny
KT Horning, Dir. of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center & Sandra Payne (we love librarians!)
smiling after Sandra asked me to sign ALL of my books! (6) ~ notice the Virginia Hamilton poster in the background; she was another honoree
Gambian musician Salieu Suso & Andrew P. Jackson, Exec. Dir., Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center
Illustrator George Ford & Nancy Tolson
Bernette Ford, founder of Color-Bridge Books
Author William Loren Katz
Esther Cooper Jackson (she’s 94!)
Honorees, Leo & Diane Dillon
Nancy, Diane, Leo, & George
George, Pat Cummings, Diane & Leo
Dr. Rashidah Ismaili-AbuBakr, & Tony Medina with a poster by Tom Feelings (another honoree)
the signature shot! Nancy, my good friend Laura Atkins, & me
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