Go show your father.’”* Brian’s father, of course, was the well-known illustrator Jerry Pinkney. My mother often found me in the corner drawing and would say, ‘Wow, that’s beautiful. “When I was a child, my mother would pull out paper and we’d all start drawing. Brian’s mother, Gloria Pinkney, an author and artist, fostered creativity within the family circle. Andrea is also the author of the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters and Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, which won the 2013 Coretta Scott King Author Award.īrian Pinkney grew up in a household where art infused his everyday life. I don’t know how I got the idea or the habit to carry this notebook, but somewhere along the line, I did.Somewhere along the line, it occurred to me that a living, breathing person was writing those books, and that maybe I could do that.” Since then, Pinkney has authored several notable titles, including the novels The Red Pencil and Bird in a Box, and the non-fiction picture books A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down and Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride. I wrote about everything that was important to me. I had that notebook with me all the time: by my side, in my book bag, in my pillowcase, you name it. The daughter of a civil rights activist and an English teacher, Andrea Davis Pinkney “started carrying a notebook with me wherever I went.
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