Cathie Mercier, Director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and our multiple graduate degree programs in literature for young people, invites you to join her in welcoming this internationally celebrated children’s book author and artist.
In 2014, Roger Mello made history when the International Board on Books for Young People selected him as the Hans Christian Andersen Medalist. Mello was the first illustrator from Latin America to achieve this distinction.
In over 100 picturebooks, Mello engages his readers with a brilliant exploration of color, a unique style, and distinctive storytelling. Fuzuê! Invention & Imagination in the Art of Roger Mello, the first exhibit of Mello’s work in the United States, shows at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art through January 5, 2025.
Attendees will receive the zoom link the day before the event via email from [email protected]
We thank the Dean Family for establishing The Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture to celebrate a life committed to reading with young people. The Sweetser Lecture and has featured a variety of award-winning authors and illustrators, including Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, David Wiesner, Linda Sue Park, Anita Silvey, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Lois Lowry, Barbara Harrison (founding director of the Center), and Gregory Maguire ’78GS.
Attendees will receive the zoom link the day before the event via email from [email protected]
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Children's Literature in the Gwen Ifill School at Simmons University in partnership with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
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