![]() ![]() John Henry (Dial), retold by Julius Lester, won the 1995 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for picture book, and three of his books, John Henry, Mirandy and Brother Wind (Knopf) by Patricia McKissack, and The Talking Eggs (Dial) by Robert San Souci, have been named Caldecott Honor Books. The senior producer of this family drama, Jerry Pinkney is a painter whose opalescent watercolor illustrations have been gracing the pages of children's books since the 1960s. ![]() ![]() How has this come about? What is there about this family that led to children's books becoming the family business? And other family members are in the wings. The Pinkney family is unique in African-American children's literature, perhaps in all of American children's literature: four members of the family - two generations, two couples, two artists (one an author-illustrator), two writers - all currently producing award-winning children's literature. ![]()
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