A Is for Anansi ~ Part I

I'm in total HSP overload right now from having been out of the house for twelve hours straight…but those were some of the best twelve hours I've spent in ages!  The A Is for Anansi conference was GREAT, and I've got lots to share but for now thought I'd post some of the photos I took at the award ceremony/reception earlier this evening.  As keynote speaker Andrea Davis Pinkney said on Friday night, we've got a lot to celebrate AND a lot of work still to do.

Dr. Nancy Tolson & her husband

KT Horning, Dir. of the Cooperative Children's Book Center & Sandra Payne (we love librarians!)

smiling after Sandra asked me to sign ALL of my books! (6)

Gambian musician Salieu Suso & Andrew P. Jackson, Exec. Dir., Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center

Illustrator George Ford & Nancy Tolson

Bernette Ford, founder of Color-Bridge Books

Author William Loren Katz

Esther Cooper Jackson (she's 94!)

Honorees, Leo & Diane Dillon

Nancy, Diane, Leo, & George

George, Pat Cummings, Diane & Leo

Dr. Rashidah Ismaili-AbuBakr, & Tony Medina with a poster by Tom Feelings (another honoree)

the signature shot!  Nancy, my good friend Laura Atkins, & me