Congratulations, ALA Youth Media and NCTE Award Winners
Newbery Medal Winner, Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Honor, Charlotte Huck Recommended, Last Stop on Market Street
Newbery Medal Honor, Echo
Caldecott Medal Honor, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Winner, Orbis Pictus Honor,Trombone Shorty
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal Honor, The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Book Store
Schneider Family Award Honor, Fish in a Tree
Orbis Pictus Honor, Mesmerized
Charlotte Huck, Recommended, Crenshaw
Additionally, Erika is the author of Little Brown’s Educator’s Guide for the Caldecott Winner – Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear.
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About Mary Ann Cappiello
Mary Ann is a professor of language and literacy at Lesley University. A former public school language arts and humanities teacher, she is a passionate advocate for and commentator on children’s books. Mary Ann is the co-author of Teaching with Text Sets (2013) and Teaching to Complexity (2015) and Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy (Stenhouse, 2021). She has been a guest on public radio and a consultant to public television. From 2015-2018, Mary Ann was a member of the National Council of Teachers of English's Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction (K-8) Committee, serving two years as chair.
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