National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Mon, 01/07/2008 - 3:25pm by kidlit

The Librarian of Congress has named author Jon Scieszka as the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
"This position was created to raise national awareness of the importance of young people's literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education and the development and betterment of the lives of young people."
Scieszka is a Michigan native. He was born in Flint and graduated from Albion College. He is the author of many books, including the classics The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse. He writes the Time Warp Trio series for young readers. His latest endeavor is Jon Scieszka's Truck Town. This series for the very young will feature of fleet of very loud crashing trucks and will appear in several different formats.
Mr. Scieszka is also the author of www.guysread.com. One of his pet causes is getting boys to read and keeping them as lifelong readers.
This appointment is good news for the world of children's books.