Louis, Missouri.įloyd Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in The Blacker the Berry and a Coretta Scott King Honor for his illustrations in Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, Meet Danitra Brown, and I Have Heard of a Land. McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner The Honest-to-Goodness Truth Let My People Go, written with her husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Never Forgotten was a 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.Patricia C. Goin’ Someplace Special was a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner.
McKissack and illustrated by Diane Dillon (Random House Children’s Books). McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and Never Forgotten, written by Patricia C. Ransome (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) Goin’ Someplace Special (Atheneum Books for Young Readers), written by Patricia C. Recent publications include Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color, written by Patricia C. Patricia and Fred were awarded the prestigious Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2014 by the American Library Association. Patricia and Fred McKissack have always felt strongly that all young people need good literature by and about African Americans and have stated a dual goal of improving the self-image of African-American children and of encouraging an open attitude in all children toward cultures different from their own. Patricia McKissack’s picture book, Mirandy and Brother Wind, was awarded a Caldecott Honor Medal. Their book A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter was awarded both the Coretta Scott King Award and the Jane Addams Peace Award. Patricia McKissack worked as a team with her late husband Fredrick (1939-2013), and together they wrote over one hundred books for young readers, including picture books, beginning readers, information books, and biographies.
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