During Family Literacy Month, Museum will promote literacy and education at the Launch Zone with award-winning guest authors Steven Kellogg, Katherine Paterson, and Patricia MacLachlan WASHINGTON, Nov.

WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature and the second-largest literature prize in the world.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Katherine Paterson, two-time winner of the National Book Award and Newbery Medal, was today named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

By COLIN DABKOWSKI During the first student preview of Theatre of Youth's "The Great Gilly Hopkins," on Wednesday morning, students happily laughed along with the grumpy exploits of Hopkins, a petulant young foster child who makes up for her unhappiness by launching insults at others.

By Colin Dabkowski, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Mar.