Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316213882)

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
ISBN-10: 0316213888
ISBN-13: 9780316213882
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.80h x 9.30w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 183793 / Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2016 pg. 127
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2016
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016 pg. 147
Booklist 09/15/2016 pg. 48
Shelf Awareness 10/25/2016
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2016 pg. 101
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2016
School Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 40
School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 49
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style