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Katherine Paterson discusses her career and biography "Stories of My Life" at the 2016 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 24, 2016. 30 minutes.

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.

Katherine Paterson appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 22, 2013. 31 minutes, 5 seconds.

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.

Author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Katherine Paterson appears at the 2011 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 24, 2011. 43 minutes, 26 seconds.

Join emcee Mary Brigid Barrett and authors and illustrators Calef Brown, Susan Cooper, Jack Gantos, Gregory Maguire, Patricia McKissack, Katherine Paterson and Chris Van Dusen for a session of fun and surprises at the 2011 Library of Congress National Book Festival as they bring you excerpts from the episodic story "The Exquisite Corpse Adventure," developed as a biweekly story event for the Library of Congress. September 24, 2011. 45 minutes, 23 seconds.

National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Katherine Paterson appears at the 2010 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 25, 2010. 31 minutes, 44 seconds.

The Letters About Literature presentation at the 2010 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Letters About Literature, a national reading and writing promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is presented in partnership with Target. Each year students in grades 4 through 12 are invited to write a personal letter to an author, explaining how that author"s work has changed their view of the world or of themselves. For the 2009-2010 Letters About Literature program, 70,000 students submitted letters that were judged at the state and national levels. Winners from the Washington area read their winning letters to authors Katherine Paterson and Michael Buckley. September 25, 2010. 32 minutes, 56 seconds.

Authors and illustrators Mary Brigid Barrett, M.T. Anderson, Linda Sue Park, Katherine Paterson, James Ransome, and Timothy Basil Ering talk about their own books as well as writing the "Exquisite Corpse Adventure" at the 2010 Library of Congress National Book Festival. September 25, 2010. 49 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, 17 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. 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. 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.

Children's authors and illustrators Mary Brigid Barrett, Katherine Paterson and Steven Kellogg speak at the 2008 Library of Congress National Book Festival, discussing their collaboration on "Our White House: Looking In and Looking Out" (Candlewick, September 2008). September 27, 2008. 32 minutes, 1 second.

Katherine Paterson appears at the 2004 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. October 9, 2004. 44 minutes, 4 seconds.

Katherine Paterson appears at the inaugural 2001 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. September 8, 2001. 22 minutes, 20 seconds.