Get to Know Walter Dean Myers: A List of Resources
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Walter Dean Myers was just named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
See SLJ's exclusive interview by Debra Lau Whelan for more on this latest role for Myers, as well as many more articles, interviews, photos, and videos below.
| Walter Dean Myers recording a podcast at the SLJ office, with Trev Jones, book review editor. Photo by Kathy Ishizuka |
Articles and Blog Posts
A sampling of SLJ's Walter Dean Myers's audiobooks for elementary, middle, and high school listeners by Phyllis Levy Mandell
Children's Book Envoy Defines His Mission by the New York Times
Myers, Dowell Win Christopher Award by SLJ Staff
SLJ's Practically Paradise blogger: Messages I heard from Walter Dean Myers' Arbuthnot lecture
Walter Dean Myers, Deborah Ellis Host Discussion on Rights of the Child by SLJ Staff
Myers, Carle Named U.S. Nominees for Hans Christian Andersen Award by SLJ Staff
Walter Dean Myers Nabs Poetry Award For Jazz by Joan Oleck
Interviews
SLJ Interview: Dynamic Duo: Walter Dean Myers Teams Up with Teen Author by Debra Lau Whelan
SLJ Catches Up with Walter Dean Myers by Debra Lau Whelan
SLJ Interview: Two Decades Later, the Angel Warriors Continue to Fall: Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise over Fallujah by Jennifer M. Brown
Reviews
SLJ's most recent reviews of books by Walter Dean Myers for elementary, middle, and high school students by SLJ's Book Review Staff
SLJ Review: Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
SLJ Review: Amiri & Odette: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers
Videos
Video: Walter Dean Myers's son, Christopher, talks about collaborating with his father.
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers talk about We Are America.
Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman talk about their book collaboration, Kick
Photos
Below: Walter Dean Myers, on the National Book Award red carpet. He was wearing his finalist medal for Young People's Literature for his book Lockdown (HarperCollins, 2010) Photo by Rocco Staino
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoollibraryjournal/5189616245/
[Below images by Luann Toth] Walter Dean Myers takes librarians on a tour of lower Manhattan sites related to his new book, Riot (Egmont, 2009)
On August 6, Egmont USA sponsored a tour of lower Manhattan sites, led by Barnet Schecter, author of The Devil's Own Work, and Walter Dean Myers, in conjunction with his new book Riot (Egmont, 2009), a novel about the New York City draft riots in July, 1863.
Podcast
Selected poems from Jazz, by Walter Dean Myers
http://c0003264.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Selected poems from Jazz Part I.mp3
