Inaugurating the Bank Street Center for Children's Literature
Before an overflow audience on the evening of October 3, 2007, President Augusta Souza Kappner announced the launch of the new Bank Street Center for Children's Literature and the presentation of the Center's first Lifetime Achievement Award to Eric Carle, the renowned children's book author and illustrator. The program's celebratory theme was the "enduring power of children's literature," which, Dr. Kappner emphasized, Bank Street has focused on since its founding.
By establishing the Center, she said, Bank Street intends to take a more forceful role in restoring children's literature to its central place in children's learning and literacy through increased advocacy; more outreach in the public schools; plus conferences, workshops, and special events aimed at parents, educators, and especially policy makers.
Keynote speaker Leonard Marcus, the distinguished children's literature historian and author, discussed the important role Bank Street has played in the development of children's literature. He also introduced the guest readers, who included prize-winning Bank Street authors.
The evening then proceeded to, as Dr. Kappner had put it earlier, "the honor of presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Eric Carle, whose splendid and unique body of work is itself a testament to the enduring power of children's literature."
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