2022 Highlights Foundation Scholarship Recipients

Article by Highlights Foundation News

“More Than 90 Storytellers Receive Scholarships from the Highlights Foundation in Support of Their Work to Inspire Kids  

Honesdale, PA – The Highlights Foundation has just awarded scholarships to more than 90 aspiring and established children’s authors and illustrators, marking the largest yearly scholarship investment to date in the organization’s history. 

While the scholarships will be awarded now and used in 2022-2023, the investment that the Highlights Foundation is making in these storytellers is designed to have a longer-term, broader impact.  That’s because the investment is rooted in the work that these authors and illustrators are doing to inspire kids through story. 

“After volunteering in numerous classrooms and working at summer camps, I realized how much we can learn from children if only we listen. I tell people that I have learned more about love, community, and justice from children than I ever have from adults. All children deserve books that are honest with them about this wild world, and I wasn’t seeing enough of that in the classrooms I worked in,” said scholarship recipient Gwendolyn Wallace in her application…”

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