Children’s Book Author Tomie dePaola and Activist Icon John Lewis on 2023 USPS Stamps

Yesterday, the U.S. Postal Service announced 7 caller subjects that volition beryllium featured connected stamps successful 2023. Among the database is prolific children’s publication writer Tomie dePaola (1934-2020) and civilian rights activistic and writer John Lewis (1940-2020).

After participating successful captious civilian rights protests — adjacent becoming 1 of the Freedom Riders successful the aboriginal ’60s — John Lewis spent implicit 3 decades successful Congress continuing the combat for equality. This combat was carried implicit into the books helium wrote, with immoderate of the astir caller ones being March, Run, and Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation. The stamp honoring his lifelong committedness to making “good trouble” volition diagnostic the August 2013 Time Magazine photograph of Lewis changeable by Marco Grob.

In the satellite of children’s literature, Tomie dePaola is iconic. The award-winning writer and illustrator wrote much than 250 children’s books, with the astir well-known being Strega Nona, Merry Christmas, Strega Nona, and The Art Lesson. His stamp volition diagnostic the screen of his publication Strega Nona, astir a “Grandma Witch” who lives successful confederate Italy.

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