BGuthrie Photos: Gaithersburg Book Festival (2015) -- Kwame Alexander ("The Crossover")

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Kwame Alexander is the recipient of the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature. He has written 18 books, including the award-winning children’s book "Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band," which was recently optioned as a children’s television show, and his Junior Library Selections: the young adult novel "He Said She Said" and his middle grade debut, "The Crossover," which The New York Times called “a beautifully measured novel.” Alexander believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through his Book-in-a-Day literacy program, which has created more than 3,000 student authors at 69 schools across the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. A regular speaker and workshop presenter at conferences in the U.S., he also travels the world (Brazil, Italy, France and Turkey) planting seeds of literary love. Recently, Alexander led a delegation of 20 writers and activists to Ghana, where they delivered books, built a library and provided literacy professional development to 300 teachers, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. The Kwame Alexander Papers, a collection of his writings, correspondence and other professional and personal documents is held at the George Washington University Gelman Library. In 2015, Kwame will serve as Bank Street College of Education’s first writer-in-residence.

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2015 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha! Trips this year: a quick trip to Florida. two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles). Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post. Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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