Whenever Walter Dean Myers wrote a book — and he published nearly 100 of them for children and teens — he would ask his wife, Connie, to assemble a collage of related images that he hung above ...

I will never forget an interview we did two years ago with Walter Dean Myers, an award-winning children's author. He was talking about how some kids are embarrassed to be seen carrying books.

Walter Dean Myers has come a long way from being a boy with a speech problem who got teased in school — and then got into fights. On Tuesday, Myers, the author of more than 100 books for kids ...

Walter Dean Myers is the award-winning author of over 100 books, written especially for young adults and children. His goal: to get more children reading. Jeffrey Brown reports on how reading and ...

Walter Dean Myers, the award-winning children's book author and former ambassador for young people's literature, died this week at the age of 76. He was a longtime advocate of children's reading.

Author Walter Dean Myers Myers was soon getting into trouble ... I entered a story in a contest run by the Council on Interracial Books for Children. My entry, Where Does the Day Go?, ...

Acclaimed young adult and children’s book author Walter Dean Myers will be the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, the Library of Congress announced Tuesday. Myers, 74 ...

Walter Dean Myers won the Coretta Scott King Award ... won a Council on Interracial Books for Children Award. (Amazon) 4. Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but grew up in Harlem.

NEW YORK (AP) – Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific ... community and a leading advocate for diversity in children's books, he was a three-time National Book Award nominee and ...

Update: Myer’s publisher Sholastic Books has a released a statement on the author’s death. Walter Dean Myers, a beloved author of children’s books, died on Tuesday following a brief illness ...

NEW YORK — Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific ... community and a leading advocate for diversity in children's books, he was a three-time National Book Award nominee and received ...