#Jerry Pinkney

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A Jerry Pickney Saturday

Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) was a multi-award-winning American illustrator and children’s book author. His numerous awards include a Caldecott Medal (2010); five Caldecott Honor Book awards; five Coretta Scott King Book Awards (the most for any illustrator); five Coretta Scott King Honor Awards; the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award (2016); the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; four Gold medals, four Silver medals, and the 2016 Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators; and he was nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, considered the Nobel Prize for children's literature, among many other awards and recognitions.

The images shown here are Pickney’s pencil, color pencil, and watercolor illustrations for children’s book author Alan Schroeder’s 1996 fictional biography, Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, published in New York by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book won Pickney the 1997 Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator, and the book was a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 1996.

Schroeder writes that “While Minty is a fictional account of Harriet Tubman’s childhood, and some scenes have been invented for narrative purposes, the basic facts are true.” Of illustrating this book, Pinkney writes:

The challenge that Minty initially posed for me came from not having a clear picture of Harriet Tubman’s early childhood. However, I was able to imagine the spirited eight-year-old Minty, using Alan Schroeder’s strong text and Harriet Tubman’s biography, The Moses of Her People, as springboards. The National Park Service was also helpful . . . as was the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Maryland, where extensive research uncovered the style of plantations around Maryland during Minty’s childhood and authentic details regarding backgrounds, dress, food, and living conditions of the enslaved as well as the slave owners. My interest was to give some sense of Minty’s noble spirit and open a window to understanding the day-to-day, sunup to sundown life of the slave, by individualizing the hardships in overwhelming circumstances.

In 1978 I was privileged to create the first Harriet Tubman commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. This book, then, brings me full circle with Harriet’s life and courage.

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Taylor Caldwell with Jess Stearn - The Romance of Atlantis - William Morrow - 1975 (art by Jerry Pinkney)

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[motifcollector]

Jerry Pinkney, cover for The Old African, 2005 picture book written by Julius Lester and illustrated by Pinkney

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[sunlilys]

“i am a storyteller at heart”

jerry pinkney. aesop’s the lion & the mouse, 2009.

#jerry pinkney #watercolor #2000s #children’s illustration #lion

[cellabella-illuminates]

Pages 66 and 67 of my 2015-2016 watercolor sketchbook/journal.

A couple of my favorite pages - @theoneman-army and I went to a book signing event in NYC (at Books of Wonder I think?) that had illustrators, both famous and new, there to talk about their new books and sign them. I mainly went for Melissa Sweet because I actually interviewed her for a class during my last semester but if you look carefully, you'll notice I even got to meet Jerry Pinkney (The Lion and the Mouse) and Ron Barrett (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)!! I was a little starstruck, not gonna lie.

I do not remember what books they had just published then aside from Melissa Sweet (an illustrated biography of E.B. White titled "Some Writer!"). I think Ron Barrett had published an alphabet book.

It might have been a little odd to ask them to autograph my sketchbook but it is something I will treasure forever so I have zero regrets on that :)

#cella's watercolor journal #melissa sweet #jerry pinkney #ron barrett #evan turk #pamela zagarenski

[winzlownation]

🌈 #1243

#kidlitart #picturebooks #crayola #John Henry #Jerry Pinkney

[quotent-potables]

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

Jerry Pinkney

#quotes #jerry pinkney

[urgetocreate]

Jerry Pinkney (American b.1939), The Crow and the Pitcher, 2000, Pencil and watercolor on paper

[cityof2morrow]

Gallery Collection 001

Published: 2-21-2024 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY This is the first in a series of upcoming investment objects for Sims 2 – things your sims can use to generate income over time. From 1975-2000, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. commissioned 30 paintings of African kings and queens for an extended outreach and marketing campaign. This set of paintings features artwork from this amazing series. Celebrate Black History Month 2024! #co2bhm #bhm2024 #sims2bhm.   *No copyright infringement intended – I own no rights to these images.

DETAILS Requires Sims 2. Requires Apartment Life for shiftability. §1K-15K | Buy > Deco > Wall Hangings Paintings are centered on 1-tile but cover more tiles than that. They come in various gallery sizes and images have been edited to fit the mesh. After purchase, their value increases by approximately 2% daily – watch out for burglars! Files with “MESH” in their name are REQUIRED. Frame recolors include EA/Maxis and yeti textures. Frame and painting recolors are merged into two files so you’ll have to take them or leave them. ITEMS Great Kings & Queens of Africa: Paintings 001-006 (92-764 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) from SFS | from MEGA

IMAGES

Akhenaton Pharaoh of Egypt (1375-1358 BC) by Barbara Higgins Bond

Alfonso I King of the Kongo (circa 1486-1543) by Carl Owens (1929-2002)

Askia Muhammaed Toure King of Songhay (1493-1529) by Leo Dillon

Benhanzin Hossu Bowelle—The King Shark (1841-1906) by Thomas Blackshear II

Cleopatra VII Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC) by Ann Marshall

Hannibal Ruler of Carthage (247-183 BC) by Charles Lilly

Hatshepsut The Ablest Queen of Far Antiquity (1503-1482 BC) by Dean Mitchell

Idris Alooma Sultan of Bornu (1580-1617) by Charles Lilly (1949-)

Ja Ja King of the Opobo (1821-1891) by Jonathan Knight

Khama III The Good King of Bechuanaland (1819-1923) by Carl Owens

Makeda Queen of Sheba (960 BC) by Debra Edgerton

Mansa Kankan Musa King of Mali (1306-1337) by Barbara Higgins Bond

Menelek II King of Kings of Abyssinia (1844-1913) by Dow Miller

Moshoeshoe King of Batsutoland (circa 1786-1870) by Jerry Pinkney

Mwana Ngana Ndumba Tembo—Ruler of the Angolan Tchokwe (1840-1880 circa) by Kenneth Calvert

Nandi Queen of Zululand (1778-1826 AD) by HM Rahsaan Fort II

Nefertari Nubian Queen of Egypt (192-1225 BC) by Steve Clay

Nehanda of Zimbabwe (1862-1898) by Lydia Thompson

Nzingha—Amazon Queen of Matambo (1582-1663) by Dorothy Carter

Osei Tutu King of Asante (circa 1650-1717) by Alfred Smith

Queen Amina of Zaria (1588-1589) by Floyd Cooper

Samory Toure The Black Napoleon of the Sudan (1830-1900) by Ezra Tucker

Shaka-King of the Zulus (1787-1828) by Paul Collins

Shamba Bolongongo African King of Peace (1600-1620) by Roy LaGrone

Sunni Ali Beer King of Songhay (circa 1442-1492) by Leo Dillon

Taharqa King of Nubia (710-664 BC) by John Thomas Biggers

Tenkamenin King of Ghana (1037-1075 AD) by Alexander Bostic

Thutmose III Pharaoh of Egypt (753-712 BC) by Antonio Wade

Tiye The Nubian Queen of Egypt (circa 1415-1340 BC) by Leonard Jenkins

Yaa Asantewa Queen of Ghana (1863-1923) by Barbara Higgins Bond CREDITS No copyright infringement intended – I own no rights to these images. Artwork and trademarks are the property of their respective creators and/or owners. If this exceeds fair use, please contact me via private message. Thanks: Simming and Sketchfab Communities. Sources: Any Color You Like (CuriousB, 2010), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), Console Certificates (d_dgjdhh, 2019; 2011), EA/Maxis, Gyeongbokgung Sajeongjeon Painting (National Heritage Administration, 2024 via CCA; Sketchfab), Great Kings and Queens of Africa Series (Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 1975-2000; Kentake, 2016), Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), Painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski (Sosnowski, 2018 via CCA), Yeti Metals (Shastakiss, 2017).

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jerry pinkney the artist you are

[alleannaharris]

Today's Black History Month illustration is of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), a singer, songwriter & guitarist who is referred to as the "godmother of rock and roll."

She was the first great recording star of gospel music. Also, due to her unique mix of spiritual lyrics & rhythmic accompaniment, she was one of the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm and blues and rock & roll audiences. She influenced early rock & roll musicians like Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley & Jerry Lee Lewis.

I’m not sure why I decided to go with the greyscale illustration. It’s probably because of the black & white footage. I like it though. I included a clip of her performance of “Didn’t It Rain” live at an abandoned train station in Manchester, England in 1964.

Also, if you’re in the market for a few picture books, I have two for you to preorder: The first is “Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll” by Tonya Bolden and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. The second is “Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll,” written and illustrated by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow. They’re both coming out this month!

I’ll be back tomorrow with another illustration and story!

#sister rosetta tharpe #black history month #bhm #black history month 2023 #black women art #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr

[sistahscifi]

Can't wait for the theatrical release of The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey (Ariel) and Daveed Diggs (Sebastián)?!?

Then swipe our favorite books featuring Black mermaids and sirens for readers of all ages!! Let us know other titles you would add to the list in the comments!!

The Little Mermaid: Against the Tide by J Elle

🧜🏽‍♀️ Against the Tide is inspired by the live action adaption of The Little Mermaid coming to theaters May 2023. In Against the Tide, Ariel and her sisters begin uncovering new secrets about their family and kingdom. Ariel also will have to face the loss of a mother she never had a chance to know and discover what it means to be both a good sister and a strong leader.

Reading level: Grades 7 - 9

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The Little Mermaid by Jerry Pinkney

🧜🏽‍♀️ Melody, the littlest sea princess, is not content just to sing in the choir of mermaids like her sisters. She is an explorer who wonders about what lies above the water's surface . . . especially the young girl she has spied from a distance.

Reading Age: 4 to 8.

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Skin of the Sea & Soul of the Deep

(Of Mermaids and Orisa Series) by Natasha Bowen.

🧜🏿‍♀️ When a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi does the unthinkable—she saves his life, going against an ancient decree, and punishment awaits those who dare to defy it. https://sistahscifi.com/products/skin-of-the-sea-hardcover

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'A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

🧜🏿‍♀️ In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own family struggles, pitted against literal demons from her past. Together, these best friends must navigate through the perils of high school’s junior year.

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Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Sherman

🧜🏿‍♀️ Kenzie turns her fierce love for the ocean into action, resourcefully cleaning up the beach after her mermaid-tail swimsuit tangles in floating plastic bags.

"Perfect for lessons on recycling or Earth Day storytimes." @Booklist

Reading Age: 4 to 8.

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Better yet, check them out from your local #library!!

First image reposted @hallebailey Words can’t describe how immensely honored I feel to play the mermaid of my dreams, Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Come under the sea with me, in theaters May 26, 2023 🧜🏽‍♀️

Second image Reposted @authorjelle Out Tuesday April 11th, 2023! ✨🐚 🌊

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The Patchwork Quilt - Valerie Flournoy & Jerry Pinkney (1985)

#winter #kidcore #childhood nostalgia #this is one of my favourite books from my childhood it means so much to me <3

[futurebird]

They won't always be there.

If there is someone you admire, who isn't super famous, but who is pretty accomplished and if they are over say…65 I want to advise you to do a morbid thing.

Think about how you would feel if they died and you never reached out to them. Never got their autograph, never sent an email that starts "I know you're probably to busy to answer this but …"

Because you could just go on wondering what you might have learned… or wishing you could have let them know…

(Ted Corbitt Jerry Pinkney)

#life #death #tw death

[itsbooktimepeople]

Hi

This is a blog about books. I mostly read YA, poetry, and classic literature, then post my thoughts about it. I'll do reviews, recommendations, and generally post anything reading related.

My goal this year is to read 100 books, and I'll be listing (and hopefully reviewing a couple of them) here.

Salt by Nayyirah Waheed (★★★☆☆)

The Iliad by Homer (★★★☆☆)

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (★★★★☆)

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (★★★☆☆)

The Siren by Kiera Cass (★★☆☆☆)

City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson (★★★☆☆)

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (★★★☆☆)

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (★★☆☆☆)

Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth (★★★☆☆)

Sadie by Courtney Summers (★★★★☆)

Gilded by Marissa Meyer (★★☆☆☆)

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (★★★★☆)

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller (★☆☆☆☆)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (★★★★☆)

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang (★★★☆☆)

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (★★★★★)

Mistborn: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (★★★★☆)

Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (★★★★☆)

World War Z by Max Brooks (★★★☆☆)

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (★★★☆☆)

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe (★★★★☆)

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (★★★☆☆)

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (★★★☆☆)

Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan (★★☆☆☆)

Crank by Ellen Hopkins (★★★★☆)

Scythe by Neal Shusterman (★★★★☆)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (reread) (★★★★☆)

Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (★★★☆☆)

Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan (★★☆☆☆)

Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Li (★★★★☆)

That was Then, This is Now by S. E. Hinton (★★★★☆)

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (★★★☆☆)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (★★★★★)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (★★★★☆)

Mistborn: The Alloy of Law (★☆☆☆☆)

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (★★★★☆)

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor (★★★★★)

 Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez (★★★☆☆)

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (★★★☆☆)

In the Woods by Tana French (★★★☆☆)

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm (★★★★☆)

If I Stay by Gayle Forman (★★★★☆)

Silent Thunder by Andrea Davis Pinkney (★★★☆☆)

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (★★★★★)

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The New York Times: Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books.

“Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it.

In a verdant rural setting, a weathered gray fence separates two girls, one Black, one white. The Black child extends her hand as the white girl, already straddling the fence’s top rail, reaches down. Although they barely grasp each other’s fingers, a viewer can sense their curiosity, their anticipation, their desire to surmount this barrier.

The scene, a watercolor by E.B. Lewis, is among the first works visitors encounter in “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books,” on view through July 24 at the New-York Historical Society. Created for Jacqueline Woodson’s book “The Other Side,” from 2001, the painting reflects two of this exhibition’s major themes: that progress stems from everyday, individual action as much as from collective effort; and that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it.

“It was kids themselves who are on the sidewalks and streets, going to jail, getting bitten by dogs, taking the attack of billy clubs,” Andrea Davis Pinkney, the exhibition’s curator, said in an interview at the museum. “And that is happening right now. This minute.”

The show, which traces the civil rights movement from segregation to the present, captures those terrible moments, along with interludes of joy. Organized by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, “Picture the Dream” is the first exhibition to chronicle this history through children’s literature, Pinkney said. When the show debuted at the High Museum in August 2020, she added, some visitors thought George Floyd’s killing and the following protests had inspired it. But while “Picture the Dream” had been planned much earlier, subsequent events, including the racist massacre in Buffalo last month, have only sharpened its relevance.

“A picture book can never heal a tragedy,” Pinkney said, but “it can help us,” she added. Books allow families “to come together — an adult and a child — and say, ‘Let’s talk about this.’”

The potential to provoke such conversations was key to selecting the exhibition’s art, which comes from 60 books, nonfiction and fiction. Pinkney, an editor at Scholastic and an award-winning writer — she frequently collaborates with her husband, the illustrator Brian Pinkney — knew the show would commemorate milestones, including the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 and 1956 and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches in 1965. But in addition to honoring events, she wanted to feature a range of mediums and artists, including young illustrators like Vashti Harrison, as well as renowned figures like Faith Ringgold and Jerry Pinkney (her father-in-law).

The artworks, combined with explanatory text, constitute a kind of picture book themselves. Pinkney wrote the words as if she were creating a story, exhorting young museumgoers to get ready to walk: “Look down at your shoes. Are they sturdy?”

Pinkney and her collaborators also divided the show into chapters: “A Backward Path” explores the Jim Crow era; “The Rocks Are the Road” focuses on the movement itself; and “Today’s Journey, Tomorrow’s Promise” celebrates its rewards, while stressing that there is still much to be done. Along with famous faces like Rosa Parks and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., each segment features surprises, not the least of which is seeing the illustrations at full scale.

“The original artwork speaks with a different resonance,” the illustrator Bryan Collier, who has four works in the show, said in a phone interview. Because, he added, “it tells you a little bit more, it expands the idea of what a picture book is.”

The collage-and-watercolor illustration that Collier created for a picture book of Langston Hughes’s poem “I, Too,” depicts a Black Pullman porter in a striking close-up, staring resolutely through the translucent stars and stripes of an American flag. What visitors learn is that African American railway porters circulated news to Black communities around the country.

“When you say, ‘Pullman porter,’ you’re talking about a community organizer and a leader,” Collier said. Such a figure, he added, was “a driving force to tell that poem.”

The exhibition pairs Collier’s illustration with a 1959 copy of “The Negro Travelers’ Green Book” — a guide to places that were safe for Black motorists — as well as a digitized version visitors can read. The historical society supplemented the show with these objects and others, including segregation-era “White” and “Colored” signs and a photograph by Stephen Somerstein of children in a Selma-to-Montgomery march. The photo complements P.J. Loughran’s illustration of a marching crowd for Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s vivid memoir, “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March.”

“I think kids and adults sometimes go to a museum, and they see illustrations or pictures of things, and they think: ‘Well, was this real? Did this really happen?’” Alice Stevenson, the vice president and director of the historical society’s DiMenna Children’s History Museum, said in a phone interview. “And we wanted to be able to give some touch points throughout the exhibition to really ground people in the reality of what these illustrations are representing.” (Visitors can also see historical footage in a short film, “Picture the Dream,” on the Bloomberg Connects app.)

The added objects heighten the impact of searing portrayals like Eric Velasquez’s charcoal drawing of white adults and children heckling Black girls marching, from Angela Johnson’s book “A Sweet Smell of Roses.”

“History itself did not see fit to sugarcoat itself for me,” Velasquez said in a phone conversation. As a Black man, he added, “I portray it the way I remember it.”

The exhibition is unflinching in acknowledging that not all Black children survived the struggle. Philippe Lardy’s image for Marilyn Nelson’s poetry book “A Wreath for Emmett Till” features the face of Till, a 14-year-old murdered by white racists in 1955, encircled by thorns and chains. Tim Ladwig’s illustration from Carole Boston Weatherford’s book “The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights” is less stylized. It shows Till’s portrait and his coffin, but uses the raised lid — the boy’s mother insisted on a public viewing — to hide the brutalized body.

In choosing such images, “we were going to lean right into the truth,” said Pinkney, who added that the educational organization Embrace Race had evaluated the accuracy and the tone of the exhibition’s content.

The show’s final section strikes a more optimistic note, with illustrations like Velasquez’s portrayal of Barack Obama at a jubilant campaign rally, from Michelle Cook’s “Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack and the Pioneers of Change.” The historical society, however, has also interspersed three works that children created in 2020 — not for picture books but about Black Lives Matter protests.

“We want kids to be able to respond to the past in their own lives,” Stevenson said.

Perhaps the best call to action is the books themselves, all shelved within a reading nook in the show’s concluding segment. Here, too, an outstretched hand appears, part of a joyful blown-up illustration that Collier painted for Useni Eugene Perkins’s book “Hey Black Child.”

“That’s always the goal — to read books, to embrace them, to love them,” Pinkney said. “And to know that a picture book can be your North Star.”

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