Biography of virginia hamilton
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In the Beginning is named the ALA Best Book for Young Adults, National Science Teachers Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, Newbery Honor Book, Parents Magazine’s Best Book of the Year, Time magazine’s One of the Twelve Best Books for Young Readers and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, among others.
Virginia is named distinguished writing professor, Graduate School of Education, The Ohio State University.
Virginia receives the Catholic Literary Association’s Regina Medal.
Biography of virginia hamilton
The only criterion for this award is excellence. The Regina Medal is awarded annually to a “living exemplar of the words of the English poet Walter de la Mare ‘only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enough for the young,’ for continued, distinguished contribution to children&#;s literature.”
Virginia wins the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, the highest international recognition bestowed on an author or illustrator of children’s literature.
She was only the fourth American