Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended)

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.

• The Great Spruce
• The Animals' Santa
• Oskar and the Eight Blessings
• Cloudette
• The Big Bed
• If Your Monster Won't Go To Bed
• A Plump And Perky Turkey
• Hoot and Peep
• Freedom in Congo Square (Charlotte Zolotow Award)
• Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion