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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

 Author: Javaka Steptoe  Category: Art, Biographies and Non-Fiction, Elementary School, Emotions and Feelings, Family, Preschool  Reading Age: Elementary School, Preschool  Language: English  Amazon  Bookshop org
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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.

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Written and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
Source: Publisher (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

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