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.

Date created

• 1996 May 19

Type

• Video

Creator

• Unknown

Master Format

• MOV

Identifier

• nam_spe_mss_005_honorary_doctorate

Subject

• Brown, Marcia
• Caldecott Medal Juvenile literature

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

  

ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

Marcia Brown Papers

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts