Ambassador …Schezka? Sheezikka? Skezzka…?

Can you imagine the awards dinners? The glitzy state affairs at the White House? And none of them able to say nor spell the name of a guy we all know is the cool brainfather of Guys Read and a bunch of other books like The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs?

Via Read Roger, we’ve discovered that awesomely energetic and funny Jon Scieszka is the newest — and the first — National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Congratulations!!! And YAY for young people’s lit — it’s about to get a most serious kick in the pants!

About the author

tanita s. davis is a writer and avid reader who prefers books to most things in the world, including people. That's ...pretty much it, she's very boring and she can't even tell jokes. She is, however, the author of nine books, including Serena Says, Partly Cloudy, Go Figure, Henri Weldon, and the Coretta Scott King honored Mare's War. Look for her new MG, The Science of Friendship in 1/2024 from Katherine Tegen Books.

Comments

  1. Ooh, thanks for the article!

    And thanks, David — I do know how to pronounce the name; I just get a giggle imagining all the people who will mangle it… although he’s pretty good about immediately saying “Rhymes with Fresca” the minute you meet him.

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