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huge thanks all to our special guest jon batiste for the gift of his music.nk you to the national book foundation board of directors, book council, host committee and after-party committee for your time and leadership. i love the screams. thank you to the empire state building for helping mark 75 years by lating up national book foundation blue. many thanks to really useful media. our partners both on the beautiful video you just saw and on tonight's broadcast. thanks to c-span and thanks to our designers chips and jarfong. last, but not least, thank you to the volunteers, interns, and small, but mighty staff of the national book foundation. and i'm going to tell you all their names, because i want them spoken in the resume. huge thanks. ali romero, ailene lovette, meg tansy, megan reynolds, edward cartamizo, and special thanks to madeline shelton, our senior manager of awards and honors. and also, a huge thank you to meredith andrews, who after 29 years with the national book foundation will celebrate her final national book awards ceremony on staff this eve

tune in tomorrow when my guests will be dua lipa and our old friend jon batiste.

[ cheers and applause ] ♪♪ >> jon batiste!y, so, guys, so not everyone knows this but part of what makes this evening so special is that none of us, except for each category's judges, know who the winners of the national book awards are in advance. nobody! earlier today, the five judges in each awards category made their final decisions.er tonight, we will hold our breath in anticipation as the award winners are announced live from the stage by each panel chair. the winners are going to be ,presented in reverse alphabetical order. that's young people's literature, translated literature, and then poetry and then non-fiction and finally fiction. the awards ies in the panel ir will be helping us. first up the finalist for young people's literature. [ cheers and applause ] that's introduced by the voice of actor, comedian and writer, jenni slate. let's go. >> young people's literature opens our eyes to worlds of possibility. through fiction, non-fiction and verse, the finalists for the 2024 national book award for young people's l

and now it's my honor to welcome back to the stage, the one and only jon batiste. don. oh, stop. dream. don stop believing. because you know that our time is coming up. so let's soak up the day. hey and dance the night away. so with all you've got don't stop. don't stop dreaming. don't stop believing. because you know that our time coming now. let's soak up the day. and dance the night away. i heard there was secret call that david played in it. please, the lord. but you don't really care. you do. it goes like this for the fifth, the fall in the major. the bafokeng can't in high lawyer lawyer, high level. and don't stop dreaming. don't stop believing believing. because you know that our time is coming the the so with all you've got, don't stop oh when the same gold in their oh the same go marching in whoa how i want to be in number let me hear you. hey everybody to your feet. let me all. yeah. hey. and. thank you. john. but here's where. i have to say, guys. i'm feeling some things i haven't felt in a while. inspiration and hope. good. and now i have the pleasure kicking off the