2024 Superstar Speaker Meg Medina

Welcome back to the Picture Book Summit News Network!

Today, picture book newscaster Katie Davis is covering the PBSummit Olympic Trials taking place at Picture Book Summit Arena. Who will cut through the competition and grab the second Superstar Speaker spot at the 10th Anniversary Picture Book Summit coming to a computer near you on October 5, 2024?

Press play to hear Katie’s coverage of the event already in progress…

Superstar Speaker #2 Announcement

What an incredible way to knock the competition! Our second Superstar Speaker is….

National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina!

Meg will show us how to put our picture book manuscripts through their paces with her presentation:

The Ultimate Writing Relay:

Readers, Relationship, and Revision

Throughout the course of writing a book, you must pass the baton of your story from one writing phase to another. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina relays her three Rs of picture book writing while showing how she put the manuscript for Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away through its paces.

Get to know Meg Medina:

Meg Medina is the Library of Congress’s 2023–2024 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and the author of the Newbery Medal–winning book Merci Suárez Changes Gears. She is also the author of award-winning young adult novels and picture books, including No More Señora Mimí, illustrated by Brittany Cicchese; Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez; Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was a Pura Belpré Author and Illustrator Award Honor Book; and Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Click to check out just a few of Meg Medina’s children’s books:

It’s going to be a day that’s beats all the rest! Make plans to join us!

Picture Book Summit 2024

Perfect 10: Going for Picture Gold!

October 5, 2024

Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN!