Rip Van Winkle Award

Congratulations to 2023 Rip Van Winkle Award Winner Claribel Ortega

First awarded by SLMSSENY in 1980, the Rip Van Winkle award is presented each year to an author or illustrator who resides in our region for outstanding contributions to the world of children’s literature.

Rip Van Winkle Award Criteria

The RVW Award shall be awarded every year to an author or illustrator who resides in the seven-county region and has, over a period of years, made a significant contribution to literature for young people.

The spirit of the award is to recognize an author/illustrator from the SLMSSENY region for a body of work. As such, the following criteria will be used to determine the awardee:

If you would like to nominate a future recipient, please use the this form: https://forms.gle/d4PiXfhFxMGshZt67

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