a chapter book written in the voice of the boy Jerry had once been. The memoir started with raw material Pinkney had assembled for the earlier project—“the chaos of memory,” Spooner called ...

Rudyard Kipling, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Author, Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-14320-6 Pinkney (The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories) applies his considerable ...

The celebrated illustrator Jerry Pinkney has died ... He won a Caldecott medal for his 2010 picture book The Lion and The Mouse; he also won five Coretta Scott King awards from the American ...

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by Children’s Books Dan Santat and the late Jerry Pinkney draw from life (literally) in ...

Adept at reimagining classic tales, he often made sure that his books included Black characters and themes. By Neil Genzlinger Jerry Pinkney, whose evocative illustrations won acclaim in bringing ...

Jerry Pinkney, an illustrator who brought new life to old fairy tales — and to children’s literature as a whole — with radiant picture books celebrating African American people and culture ...

Before the world caught a glimpse of Jerry Pinkney's latest children's book, he'd sometimes first share mockups with librarians at his hometown library in Croton-on-Hudson. "We’d see it long ...

It was a moment laden with history: On this year’s Martin Luther King holiday, Jerry Pinkney became the first individual African-American to win the Caldecott Medal for his book “The Lion ...

Jerry Pinkney, a prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works including “The Lion and the Mouse” and “The ...

Before he died, Jerry Pinkney had created a very small dummy book — full of detailed black and white sketches of the backs of animals and life-size ants. The first thing Brian did was enlarge ...