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 ...

Andrea Davis Pinkney, a trustee of the Eric Carle Museum and Jerry Pinkney's daughter-in-law, said Pinkney could relate to kids who felt small. ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY: Jerry Pinkney was the youngest ...

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 ...

The celebrated illustrator Jerry Pinkney has died ... he left his mark on over a hundred books, mostly for kids and teenagers, beginning with The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales ...

The hummingbird replies, "I am doing what I can." The Littlest Drop was one of the last picture books that Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney worked on before he died. "He's just prolific ...

It was one of the last projects illustrator Jerry Pinkney worked... Do what you can. A new kids' book shows how even 'The Littlest Drop' helps Birds sing in the trees, monkeys swing from branch to ...

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