Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)

By Javaka Steptoe

Book Overview

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.

A Spanish edition, El ni o radiante, is also available for purchase.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316213888
• ISBN13: 9780316213882
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3