The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Irma Black Award) goes to an outstanding book for young children—a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black Award is unusual in that children are the final judges of the winning book.
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Kao Kalia Yang 2022 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
Kao Kalia Yang
Author Kao Kalia Yang gives an acceptance speech for From the Tops of the Trees illustrated by Rachel Wada (Carolrhoda Books)
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Rachel Wada 2022 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
Rachel Wada
Illustrator Rachel Wada gives an acceptance speech for From the Tops of the Trees; written by Kao Kalia Yang (Carolrhoda Books)