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1. Marcia Brown's UAlbany Honorary Doctorate Acceptance Speech

Type:
Video
Date Created:
1996 May 19
Collection:
Marcia Brown Papers
Collecting Area:
Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts
Collection ID:
mss005
Thumbnail Path Ss:
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System Modified Dtsi:
2019-02-05T16:20:17Z
Description:
Marcia Brown's acceptance speech after being awarded the Honorary Doctorate from the State University of New York. Commencement ceremony, University at Albany, May 19, 1996. Marcia Brown, author and illustrator of children's literature, has been awarded the Caldecott Medal (the American Library Association's highest award for excellence in childrens' picture-book illustrations), for three of her books: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954); Once a Mouse (1961); and Shadow (1982), and six more of her books are Caldecott Honor Books.
Subject:
Brown, Marcia and Caldecott Medal Juvenile literature