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

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 niño radiante, is also available for purchase.

Author: Javaka Steptoe
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.90h x 9.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780316213882

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 183793 / Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat


Award: 2017 Coretta Scott King Award Winner - Illustrator
Award: 2017 Caldecott Medal Winner - Picture Book