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Eric Velasquez

Eric Velasquez

Eric Velasquez

Eric Velasquez was awarded the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his first picture book, The Piano Man by Debbi Chocolate. Since that time he has gone on to illustrate several acclaimed picture books, including Carole Boston Weatherford's The Sound That Jazz Makes, Jim Haskins's Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali, and Candice F. Ransom's Liberty Street. The stirring black-and-white images in this book were inspired by the work of noted Civil Rights movement chroniclers Harvey Dinnerstein and Burt Silverman. Eric lives in Hartsdale, New York, with his wife, Deborah.

A Sweet Smell of Roses will be released on December 26, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Dec 26, 2007
A Sweet Smell of Roses is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 26, 2007
A Sweet Smell of Roses will be released on December 26, 2007 in
Dec 26, 2007
A Sweet Smell of Roses is now available in
Dec 26, 2007
A Sweet Smell of Roses will be released on November 30, 2004 in Hardcover
Nov 30, 2004
A Sweet Smell of Roses is now available in Hardcover
Nov 30, 2004
A Sweet Smell of Roses will be released on November 30, 2004 in
Nov 30, 2004
A Sweet Smell of Roses is now available in
Nov 30, 2004
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A Sweet Smell of Roses has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
A Sweet Smell of Roses has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
News:
A Sweet Smell of Roses has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Golf Digest, April 12, 2012
...book, "Twice as Good," written by an award-winning children's book author Richard Michelson and illustrated by Eric Velasquez. The title is derived from a lesson taught him in childhood, that "if you are going to get ahead in this world, you can't be as...
Home News Tribune, February 19, 2012
...was available at the symposium at the USGA headquarters in Far Hills on Saturday, where Powell and illustrator Eric Velasquez signed copies. It remains available at the USGA Museum gift shop. It is also available in bookstores. For more information,...
MassLive, February 14, 2012
...as Good” publication party Feb. 2-4 in Canton, Ohio, at the site of the historic course. Award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez illustrated “Twice as Good,” which is a hardcover book with 32 pages and a list price of 16.95. Published by...
MassLive, February 14, 2012
...as Good” publication party Feb. 2-4 in Canton, Ohio, at the site of the historic course. Award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez illustrated “Twice as Good,” which is a hardcover book with 32 pages and a list price of 16.95. Published by Sleeping...
Raleigh News & Observer, February 12, 2012
...to bring people together. "My Uncle Martin's Words for America" By Angela Farris Watkins, PhD., illustrated by Eric Velasquez, Abram Books for Young Readers, $19.95, ages 5 and upThe average 6-year-old doesn't comprehend "Jim Crow" or "prejudice" right...
Cleveland Live, February 5, 2012
...lovely book with shimmering paintings. Grade B+ My Uncle Martin's Words for America Angela Farris Watkins and Eric Velasquez Explaining the impact of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to young children presents a challenge, and I'm always pleased to...
Canton Repository, February 21, 2012
...Good,? published this month by Sleeping Bear Press. The book, written by Richard Michelson and illustrated by Eric Velasquez, tells the story of the late William Powell, who built Clearview Golf Club, famed as the only golf course designed, built and...
Home News Tribune, February 19, 2012
...was available at the symposium at the USGA headquarters in Far Hills on Saturday, where Powell and illustrator Eric Velasquez signed copies. It remains available at the USGA Museum gift shop. It is also available in bookstores. For more information,...
Canton Repository, February 16, 2012
...library are planned to introduce ?Twice As Good?. ? Teeing-off Black History Month, author Richard Michelson and illustrator Eric Velasquez and Powell?s daughter Renee, one of only three African-American women to play the LPGA tour, will attend events...
MassLive, February 14, 2012
...as Good” publication party Feb. 2-4 in Canton, Ohio, at the site of the historic course. Award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez illustrated “Twice as Good,” which is a hardcover book with 32 pages and a list price of 16.95. Published by...
MassLive, February 14, 2012
...as Good” publication party Feb. 2-4 in Canton, Ohio, at the site of the historic course. Award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez illustrated “Twice as Good,” which is a hardcover book with 32 pages and a list price of 16.95. Published by Sleeping...
Raleigh News & Observer, February 12, 2012
...to bring people together. "My Uncle Martin's Words for America" By Angela Farris Watkins, PhD., illustrated by Eric Velasquez, Abram Books for Young Readers, $19.95, ages 5 and upThe average 6-year-old doesn't comprehend "Jim Crow" or "prejudice" right...
Individual.com, February 6, 2012
...rest. "A good ad as is something alternative, something out of the ordinary, something unexpected," he said. Eric Velasquez agreed the Oikos commercial was one of the best ads from this year's Super Bowl, adding it was unusual for a commercial for yogurt...