2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture
Grace Lin and Alvina Ling: In Conversation
Thursday, October 20, 7:30 pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union
800 Langdon Street, Madison
Grace Lin and Alvina Ling: In Conversation
Thursday, October 20, 7:30 pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union
800 Langdon Street, Madison
Grace Lin and Alvina Ling have been friends since childhood. As adults, they’ve each helped shape the world of contemporary children’s books, Grace as an author and illustrator, Alvina as an editor. Grace has created more than 20 books for children to-date in an already-distinguished career that includes a Newbery honor for Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and a Caldecott honor for A Big Mooncake for Little Star, in addition to being the most recent recipient of the ALA/ALSC Legacy Award for “significant and lasting contributions to children’s literature.” Alvina is Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, bringing her vision and insight to editing children’s books for all ages.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Charlotte Zolotow Lecture, and in recognition of Charlotte’s career as both a writer and editor of books for children, we’ve invited Grace and Alvina, cohosts of Book Friends Forever, an entertaining, insightful podcast about children’s book publishing, to talk about some of the things important to them as they engage in the serious work of creating books for children and teens in our world today.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Zolotow Lecture
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 Merri Lindgren at 608-263-3920 or mlindgren@education@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.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Charlotte Zolotow Lecture, and in recognition of Charlotte’s career as both a writer and editor of books for children, we’ve invited Grace and Alvina, cohosts of Book Friends Forever, an entertaining, insightful podcast about children’s book publishing, to talk about some of the things important to them as they engage in the serious work of creating books for children and teens in our world today.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Zolotow Lecture
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 Merri Lindgren at 608-263-3920 or mlindgren@education@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.
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.”