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 ...

The lion spares the life of the mouse, and the mouse later rescues the lion. Children's book illustrator Jerry Pinkney gave this tale a lush and expansive life in 2009 and won the Caldecott Medal.

This cover image released by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers shows “The Lion and the Mouse,” illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal.

As illustrator of the most distinguished American ... independently and without prompting. With "The Lion and the Mouse," Pinkney proves the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.