On Sunday, January 22, John Lewis, Civil Rights hero and representative of Georgia’s 5th congressional district, spoke at the YALSA Morris & Nonfiction Award Program & Presentation in recognition of March: Book 3 winning the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. He spoke passionately about the role that librarians and libraries have played in his life — his late wife was a librarian — and the importance of good trouble and being brave.
Earlier that morning, Rep. Lewis, along with co-author Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell, received a record-breaking four awards for March: Book 3, including the Coretta Scott King Author Award, the Michael L. Printz award, the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, and the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. March: Book 3 has also received the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the Walter Dean Myers Award, presented by We Need Diverse Books.