2021 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture
Christopher Myers
Thursday, September 30, 7:30 pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union
800 Langdon Street, Madison
Christopher Myers
Thursday, September 30, 7:30 pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union
800 Langdon Street, Madison
Mr. Myers is the author and illustrator of distinguished and singular books for youth, including Wings, H.O.R.S.E., My Pen and Black Cat. He has also illustrated books written by his late father, Walter Dean Myers, and others, including Harlem, Jazz, and Monster. He is the creative director of the Make Me a World imprint at Random House Children’s Books, committed to publishing stories that defy erasure, eliminate borders, respond to hard questions, and nurture dreams.
The annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture is sponsored by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The lecture is free and open to the public .
If you need an accommodation to attend this event, please contact KT Horning at 608-263-3721 or kt.horning@wisc.edu. All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date, but cannot guarantee they will be met.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center and the Friends of the CCBC, Inc.
Masks recommended. We will follow all UW-Madison COVID guidelines in place at the time of the lecture.
If you need an accommodation to attend this event, please contact KT Horning at 608-263-3721 or kt.horning@wisc.edu. All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date, but cannot guarantee they will be met.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center and the Friends of the CCBC, Inc.
Masks recommended. We will follow all UW-Madison COVID guidelines in place at the time of the lecture.
MORE ABOUT THE CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW LECTURE
Established in 1998, this annual lecture brings a distinguished children's or young adult book author or illustrator to the University of Wisconsin campus to deliver a free public lecture. The Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, administers the event to honor the legacy and work of Charlotte Zolotow (June 26, 1915 - November 19, 2013), distinguished children's book editor and author. Ms. Zolotow attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a writing scholarship from 1933-36 where she studied with Professor Helen C. White. Her prolific career encompassed 38 years with Harper Junior Books as a children's book editor, where she was also the author of more than 65 picture books, including such classic works as Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (Harper, 1962) and William's Doll (Harper, 1972). Zolotow's work offered even the youngest children an unsentimental but compassionate view of topics like anger, envy and death. Authentic, sensual, kind, and sometimes funny, she never condescended to the emotional lives of her young readers, nor did she diminish the problems, large and small, that they faced. "Few writers for small children so empathize with them as does Charlotte Zolotow,” wrote children’s literature critic/scholar Zena Sutherland in Children and Books, noting that Charlotte’s “… understanding of children’s emotional needs and problems, and her ability to express them with candor, make her one of the major contemporary writers of realistic books for small children.”