Children’s Book Awards Luncheon
2026 NCTE Annual Convention · 21 November 2026 · 12:30–14:30 · Ballroom B (300 Level)
Children’s Book Awards Luncheon was a session at 2026 NCTE Annual Convention on 21 November 2026 in Philadelphia, with 48 speakers on record.
Speakers
- Jongsun Wee — Speaker Pacific University
- Susan Tan — Speaker Norton Children's
- Sarah Mlynowski — Speaker Scholastic/PRH
- Maria Leija — Speaker The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Ashanka Kumari — Speaker Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing, East Texas A&M University
- Glenda Funk — Speaker School District #25, Pocatello/Chuibbuck, ID
- Taraneh Matloob — Speaker Red Comet Press
- Renée Watson — Speaker Bloomsbury Press
- Jeffrey Weatherford — Speaker Macmillan
- Willeena Booker — Speaker Hatboro-Horsham School District
- Julie Winterbottom — Speaker Rocky Pond Books/Penguin Random House
- Sara Fajardo — Speaker Lynwood elementary/Macmillan/Roaring Brook
- Arree Chung — Speaker Macmillan
- Michelle Schaub — Speaker Norton Young Readers and Random House- Sleeping Bear Press
- Juana Martinez-Neal — Speaker Little, Brown and Company
- Rex Ogle — Speaker Norton Young Readers
- María Dolores Águila — Speaker Charlotte Huck Award Winner, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
- Sonja Brandt — Speaker University of North Dakota
- Brittany Cicchese — Speaker Orbis Pictus Award Winner, Illustrator
- Megan Clendenan — Speaker Orbis Pictus Award Winner, Charlesbridge
- Darryn Diuguid — Speaker McKendree University
- Kasey Short — Speaker Charlotte Country Day School
- Caroline Brewer — Speaker
- Lindsay Metcalf — Speaker Author
- Erin Entrada Kelly — Speaker Sourcebooks
- Lana Button — Speaker
- Lesley Younge — Speaker Maret School
- Kimetrice Tate — Speaker International Prep Academy/Champaign CUSD #4
- Laura Ascenzi-Moreno — Speaker Brooklyn College
- Livia Blackburne — Speaker Author
- Carri Wappat Burns — Speaker Nashua School District
- Teri Kanefield — Speaker ABRAMS Books
- Matt Forrest Esenwine — Speaker Beaming Books / Astra Young Readers / POW! Kids Books (publishers)
- Carole Boston Weatherford — Speaker Macmillan
- Caryl Crowell — Speaker Retired, Tucson Unified School District
- Hiawatha Smith — Speaker University of Wisconsin-River Falls
- April Halprin Wayland — Speaker Author, UCLA Extension Writer's Program
- Yoo Kyung Sung — Speaker University of New Mexico
- Amanda Montgomery — Speaker Park Street Elementary
- Tracey Flores — Speaker The University of Texas at Austin
- Hannah Barnaby — Speaker Sourcebooks
- Mohit Mehta — Speaker Texas State University
- Erica Braunlinger — Speaker Archdiocese of Philadelphia
- Gary R. Gray — Speaker HarperCollins/Abrams
- Nikkolas Smith — Speaker Scholastic
- Kimberly Kulasekaran — Speaker William E. Carter School/Boston Public Schools
- Ruth Quiroa — Speaker National Louis University
- Shari Lyn Revels-Davis — Speaker Chester County School District