![]() I think I knew in the beginning of November. ![]() I think I found out, gosh, maybe four to six weeks before it was announced. When did you find out you’d been chosen? What was that experience like? ![]() Tell us about being selected as the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His responses have been edited for clarity and length. Kendi.īookPage spoke to Reynolds about his new ambassadorial role, how he unlocked the key to adapting Kendi’s work and why he believes young people have the power to change the world. ![]() His career reached a new height in January 2020 when he was named the seventh National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, just two months before the publication of Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You, his extraordinary new book, co-authored with Ibram X. He’s won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, four Coretta Scott King Honors, two Walter Dean Myers Awards, a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, a Schneider Family Book Award and an Edgar, and for a moment in the spring of 2018, he had three simultaneous entries on the New York Times bestseller list. If you feel like Jason Reynolds is suddenly everywhere you look in the world of young people’s literature, you’re not wrong. ![]()
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