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• Laureen Tedesco   As chair of the International Children's Literature Assocation's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Committee, I coordinate the efforts of four children's literature scholars (including me) in writing researched nominations of two authors, illustrators, and/or literacy organizations whom ChLA's membership have selected as our nominees for a Swedish prize, worth about $500,000, for humanitarian service through children's literature. We develop persuasive essays, bibliography, and biographical information for each nominee and select representative books to send to the Swedish Arts Council, which serves as the jury for the award. Because ChLA's nominee won in 2018, we have an enhanced sense of our committee's value (I was urged by the incoming ChLA president to return as committee chair three years after my previous term as committe member and chair had expired).   2017 - 2020