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 ...

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 ...

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 ...