The New York Times today profiles Walter Dean Myers, who will be named the new national ambassador for young people’s literature by the Center for the Book, a position described as “a sort of poet laureate of the children’s book world.”

The man who, as a child, hid the books he borrowed from the library so he wouldn’t be teased, will tour the country for the next two years, promoting reading a literacy.

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