Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.

Author: Javaka Steptoe
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.80h x 9.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780316213882


Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Award: Caldecott Medal - Winner