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Nelson Mandela
Presents a biography of the former South African president Nelson Mandela, best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
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Kadir Nelson: Illustrator–United States
\"I have taken on the responsibility of creating artwork that speaks to the strength and inner beauty and outer beauty of people from all over the world. I like to create paintings of people who have overcome diversity but by being excellent or being strong or intelligent or having big hearts to remind people that they share those same qualities.\"
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Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans
An introduction to African-American history from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.
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Sibert Medal Acceptance Speech: Trampling the Grass at Hank Aaron's House
Kadir Nelson is winner of the 2009 Sibert Medal for We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, which he wrote and illustrated. It was published by Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group. His acceptance speech was delivered at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on July 13, 2009. Adapted from the source document.
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Brothers of the Knight
In this contemporary retelling of the fairy tale \"Twelve Dancing Princesses,\" an African-American reverend in Harlem endeavors to discover why the shoes of his twelve sons are worn to pieces every morning.
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Sage Advice
In 1995, while studying at Pratt Institute, Nelson created the first painting in a series focused on the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, inspired mostly by the 1994 PBS documentary Baseball by Ken Burns. He was equally captivated by the history of the leagues and by Burns's and Geoffrey C. Ward's visual and narrative storytelling. Both inspired him to paint four more works on the subject. A few years after he graduated, Sports Illustrated magazine published three of these paintings on its opening \"Leading Off\" pages, and it led to a meeting with editor Andrea Davis Pinkney at Disney's Jump at the Sun imprint. Upon signing up the book, Pinkney asked who he thought could possibly write the text. He mentioned several well-known authors he'd admired but was quickly humbled by the reality that they very likely had full plates and might not be able to work on it for quite some time (should they even accept the assignment). Being young and impatient, and without earnestly thinking it through, he eagerly proposed that he could be the one to write it. Without batting an eye, she agreed..and he was in trouble.
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If you plant a seed
While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.
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CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance
As for The Undefeated, the author is very proud of the work Kwame and him were able to produce. It was a tremendous joy to illustrate, and it provided a wonderful opportunity to tell the story of African Americans in a way that was honest, prideful, passionate, and reverent. Kwame's masterful poem left an abundance of room to create visuals that celebrated the past and present, while also inspiring the future. With his pictures, the author aimed to bring the brilliant history of African American people into the light with spirited, striking, and colorful artwork that complemented Alexander's rhythmic text, and to create art that inspires readers of all ages and backgrounds to embrace the African American story as the American story and to encourage and continue the conversation about our shared history. America is ours. We built it together. They will make it stronger together. Although we as a global community
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Dancing in the wings
Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington, D.C., despite the other girls' taunts that she is much too tall.
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Caldecott Medal Acceptance
The year was 1999, and my very first picture book, Brothers of the Knight, was slated to be published by Dial Books for Young Readers. It was written by the actress and dancer Debbie Allen and based on a stage production of the same name that she had both written and directed, with music composed by vocalist James Ingram, for the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The play was a hip and lively adaptation of the classic fairy tale \"The Twelve Dancing Princesses\" and featured Ms. Allen and Mr. Ingram in the lead roles. Shortly before the play began its run in the spring, Debbie mentioned to me that she was looking for an artist to illustrate a picture book version of the play. She hinted that the publisher had shown her some other artists work.
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