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

Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English
ISBN:	0316213888
ISBN13:	9780316213882
Release Date:	October 2016
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Length:	40 Pages
Weight:	1.38 lbs.
Dimensions:	0.6" x 9.3" x 10.8"
Age Range:	4 to 8 years
Grade Range:	Preschool to Grade 3

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.