

Sibert Honor Book and for which she also won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award. The first children’s book she illustrated is Carole Boston Weatherford’s Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, which was a Caldecott Honor Book and a Robert F. He lives in Virginia.Įkua Holmes is a fine artist whose work explores themes of family, relationships, hope, and faith. Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with contributors Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, presents original poems that pay tribute to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder.

He is currently the poet laureate of LitWorld, a K-6 literacy organization dedicated to supporting the development of literacy in the world's most vulnerable communities. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and author of twenty-one books for children and educators, including Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band, Surf’s Up, Booked, and a middle-grade novel in verse, The Crossover, which was awarded the 2015 Newbery Medal. by Kwame Alexander, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator), Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth Paperback 9. The 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award WinnerĪ Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree’s New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.īiography & Autobiography Language Arts Poetry
