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Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg answer questions from the virtual audience about their work at the 2020 Library of Congress National Book Festival. September 26, 2020. 32 minutes 14 seconds.

Join the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Jon Scieszka, for "Be You," an hour-long celebration of reading with many of the nation's top writers for kids. This one-hour special offers a preview of the longer videos that each of these authors has recorded especially for the National Book Festival. September 25, 2020. 59 minutes 56 seconds.

Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg launch their new book "AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. August 31, 2019. 22 minutes.

Pamela Paul and Maria Russo launch their new book "How to Raise a Reader" in a panel conversation with Linda Sue Park, author of "Nya's Long Walk: A Step at a Time," Jon Scieszka, author of "AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet" and Renée Watson, author of "Watch Us Rise" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. August 31, 2019. 54 minutes, 10 seconds.

This annual program, funded by the Jonah Solkoff Eskin Memorial Fund brings together three of the living Ambassadors for Young Peoples Literature, Kate DiCamillo, Katherine Paterson, and Jon Scieszka, in the Coolidge Auditorium to pay tribute to the fourth Ambassador, Walter Dean Myers, who passed away in 2014. His son, author, illustrator, Christopher Myers, presents a tribute to his father that opens with a clip from an interview from the PBS Newshour by journalist Jeff Brown. Students in the audience come from Brent Elementary, Hyde-Addison Elementary, Washington Latin Public Charter, John Eaton Elementary, and Alice Deal Middle School – all in Washington, DC, and the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. May 6, 2015. 1 hour, 20 minutes.

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and its reading promotion partner, the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, present a young people's Literary Lights Readers Theater program. Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a work in script form, similar to a radio play. Literary Lights presenters include favorite young people's authors Katherine Paterson, Jon Scieszka, Grace Lin and Susan Cooper, and showcases their books. Special guests include Carol Rasco, president and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental, and literacy advocate Lynda Johnson Robb. September 22, 2013. 57 minutes, 47 seconds.

Jon Scieszka appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 22, 2013. 31 minutes, 30 seconds.

Following the January 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviews his successor. They discuss a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. January 5, 2010. 3 minutes, 14 seconds.

Following the January 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviews his successor. They discuss a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. January 5, 2010. 4 minutes, 1 second.

Following the January 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviews his successor. They discuss a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. January 5, 2010. 2 minutes, 20 seconds.

Following the January 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviews his successor. They discuss a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. January 5, 2010. 5 minutes, 31 seconds.

Following the January 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviews his successor. They discuss a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. January 5, 2010. 2 minutes, 17 seconds.

Considered one of America's leading authorities on children's books, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus discusses his new book, "Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy" (Candlewick Press, 2009), during a program at the Library of Congress. Marcus' special guest is National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jon Scieszka, himself a writer of some of the funniest books for children, including "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" (Penguin Group (USA), 1992) and "Robot Zot!" (Simon and Schuster, 2009). October 20, 2009. 59 minutes, 41 seconds.

Children's author Jon Scieszka appears at the 2009 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 26, 2009. 52 minutes, 31 seconds.

National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jon Scieszka appears at the 2008 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 27, 2008. 28 minutes, 13 seconds.

Jon Scieszka makes his first official appearance at the Library of Congress since being named 2008-2009 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington presents Scieszka with the National Ambassador's Medal. The presentation is followed by a question-and-answer session with 50 schoolchildren from Brent Elementary School in Washington, D.C. September 26, 2008. 33 minutes, 15 seconds.