1998 American Library Association Convention « Virginia Hamilton - America's most honored writer of children's literature

1998 American Library Association Convention

: Karen Hess – Winner of the 1998 John Newbery Medal Author – Joyce Hanson Scholastic Senior Editor – Diane Hess

: Walter Dean Myers – Winner of the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award Here with Hamilton, holding the award – Kent State University

: Illustrators: Diane and Leo Dillon

: Bonnie Verburg, Editor-in-Chief Blue Sky Press – Scholastic and Dick Robinson, President and CEO, Scholastic, Inc.

: Bonnie Verburg, Author, Illustrator Baba Wagné Diakité, and Diane Dillon

: Ready for the John Newbery Dinner – 1998 Washington, D.C. – Arnold Adoff, Author and Poet