Children’s Defense Fund Founder/President Marian Wright Edelman gave introductory remarks before award-winning children’s and young adult author Walter Dean Myers presented the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture at the Alex Haley Farm.
The Haley Farm is a retreat facility in East Tennessee owned by the children’s advocacy organization. The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences was among the sponsors of this year’s venerated lecture. I am a member of the SIS advisory board.
The American Library Association’s Association for Library Service to Children administers the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award. To hear the webcast from the April 18 event, visit http://www.sis.utk.edu/node/7063.
