Scholastic Awards alumni go on to do incredible things! Read news about notable alumni below:
- Native American poet, arts advocate, and 2017 National Student Poet Kinsale Drake (Diné) has launched the NDN Girls Book Club. The initiative aims to amplify Indigenous authors, support tribal libraries and bookstores, and encourage reading and writing among Native youth. Learn more from her interview with Teen Vogue.
- Artist and alumna Jean Shin’s Something Borrowed, Something Blue is now a permanent artwork at Brooklyn Heights Library, which was commissioned for the Brooklyn Public Library’s 125th Anniversary.
- Congratulations to Carolyn Forché ‘67 who was appointed the new Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and elected to the 2023 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
- A new picture book explores the story of Robert McCloskey ‘32 and his beloved book Make Way for Ducklings, which inspired the duck figurines in Boston’s Public Garden. Learn more about Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and Some Very Famous Ducklings.
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