{"id":1108,"date":"2019-07-08T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2019-07-08T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:19:59","slug":"childrens-book-by-kerry-madden-lunsford-selected-to-be-featured-at-the-2019-national-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/2019\/07\/08\/childrens-book-by-kerry-madden-lunsford-selected-to-be-featured-at-the-2019-national-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Book by Kerry Madden-Lunsford selected to be featured at the 2019 National Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alabama Center for the\nBook has selected \u201cErnestine\u2019s Milky Way\u201d by Alabama author Kerry Madden-Lunsford<\/a>\nto be featured at its booth at the 19th National Book\nFestival<\/a> . Located in the Pavilion of States, the booth celebrates the\nLibrary of Congress\u2019 \u201cDiscover Great Places Through Reading\u201d program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book festival will be\nheld Saturday, August 31, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center\nin Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Congress\nNational Book Festival is an annual literary event that brings together\nbest-selling authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel\ndiscussions, book signings and other activities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cErnestine\u2019s Milky Way\u201d\nis an empowering picture book set in the 1940s about a determined five-year-old\ngirl who embarks on a journey to deliver milk to her neighbors in the holler.\nThe book is for children ages three to seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe inspiration for \u2018<\/em>Ernestine’s Milky Way\u2019 was my real\nmountain friend, Ernestine Edwards Upchurch,\u201d said Madden-Lunsford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was a social worker, a historian, the literary\nmatriarch of the mountains, and a great storyteller. She had a bright burning\ncuriosity about people and she read everything. Her house was full of books and\nshe championed new authors and supported established authors. She loved kids\nand wanted them reading and telling stories too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter she told me about carrying milk through the mountains as a child, the title popped into my head when I looked up at the sky and saw the Milky Way and I thought – ‘Ernestine’s Milky Way.’ <\/em>Somebody should write a story. Then I realized a few years later that somebody was going to have to be me, and I’m so grateful for Emily Sutton’s illustrations that brought the story to life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madden-Lunsford\u2019s first\nnovel, \u201cOffsides,\u201d was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age.  Her book, \u201cUp Close Harper Lee,\u201d made\nBooklist\u2019s Ten Top Biographies of 2009 for Youth.  She has written plays, screenplays, articles\nand books.  She turned to writing\nchildren\u2019s literature with her award-winning and well-reviewed Maggie Valley\nTrilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madden-Lunsford directs\nthe Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and\nteaches in the Antioch MFA Program in Los Angeles.  The mother of three adult children, she\ndivides her time between Birmingham and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, a list of\nbooks representing the literary heritage of the 50 states, the District of\nColumbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, is distributed by the\nLibrary of Congress\u2019s Center for the Book during the National Book\nFestival.  Each book is selected by a\nCenter for the Book state affiliate or state library\nand most are for children and young readers. Books may be written by authors\nfrom the state, take place in the state, or celebrate the state\u2019s culture and\nheritage.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alabama Center for\nthe Book supports reading, literacy and other book-related activities in\nAlabama as well as promotes appreciation of regional writers.  The Center is a founding co-sponsor of the\nAlabama Writers Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Congress\u2019\nCenter for the Book, established by Congress in 1977 to stimulate public\ninterest in books and reading, is a national force for reading and literacy\npromotion.  A public-private partnership,\nits sponsors educational programs that reach readers of all ages through its\naffiliated state centers, collaborations with nonprofit reading-promotion\npartners and through its Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of\nCongress. For more information, visit Read.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alabama Center for the Book has selected \u201cErnestine\u2019s Milky Way\u201d by Alabama author Kerry Madden-Lunsford to be featured at its booth at the 19th National Book Festival . Located in the Pavilion of States, the booth celebrates the Library of Congress\u2019 \u201cDiscover Great Places Through Reading\u201d program.  The book festival will be held Saturday, August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}