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Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson is the widely acclaimed illustrator of many books for children, including Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan’s Salt in His Shoes and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. Kadir Nelson lives with his family in San Diego, California.

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Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life will be released on January 01, 2013 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jan 01, 2013
Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
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Mama Miti has won an award
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Mama Miti has won an award
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Mama Miti has won an award
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Red Zone is now available in Hardcover
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All God's Critters has won an award
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Red Zone will be released on August 31, 2010 in Hardcover
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Change Has Come has won an award
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L.A. Watts Times, May 17, 2013
...Leonard, Jr. from Showtime’s House of Lies. During the literary event, renowned children’s author and illustrator Kadir Nelson will be on hand and several noted celebrities will read from his books.  Participating celebrities who will read to...
Kirkus Reviews, May 10, 2013
...readers—satire at its finest.” “Transcendent” teases readers to discover what we so admire about Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson’s Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. And the simple, eternal reader’s wish for...
Huffington Post, April 14, 2013
...James McBride, D.J. MacHale, Heather McHugh, Lisa McMann, Terry McMillan, Elizabeth Moon, Christopher Myers, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Kadir Nelson, Patrick Ness, Katherine Paterson, Daniel Pink, Andrea and Brian Pinkney, Matthew Quick, Lesa Cline-Ransome...
World News Network, April 4, 2013
...eagerly wanted to skate on the frozen lake near their home. Under Sharon Robinson's skillful authorship and Kadir Nelson's vivid illustrations, TESTING THE ICE also becomes a stunning metaphor for her father's remarkable racial breakthrough. 1:06 ...
Wicked Local West Roxbury, March 26, 2013
...Children’s March,” by Cynthia Levinson (School Library Journal Best). “I Have a Dream,” with gorgeous paintings by Kadir Nelson, includes a recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech (Coretta Scott King illustrator Honor). A...
CNB Online, March 25, 2013
...A Christmas Carol by Diana Landon; and We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson, all of which feature outstanding illustrations. The donation was inspired by a similar gift made by the New Brunswick Maple Syrup Association...
School Library Journal, March 25, 2013
...is a bit closer than they may think. As for the faces themselves, Cooper gives fellow illustrators like Kadir Nelson a run for their money. These are people who have worked their entire lives. One wonders where he pulled these faces from. They?re not...
Little Black Book, May 23, 2013
...Young,” and numerous commercials for brands including Nike, Samsung and Motorola); hip-hop artist, Theophilus London; and award-winning artist, Kadir Nelson. The commercial was produced by Believe Media/Black Hand Cinema. In the visually stunning...
Individual.com, May 23, 2013
...s "When You Were Young," and numerous commercials for brands including Nike, Samsung and Motorola); and artist Kadir Nelson. The commercial was produced by Believe Media. Director Mandler infuses Nelson's iconic paintings into various "Versailles meets...
Individual.com, May 23, 2013
...Killer's "When You Were Young," and numerous commercials for brands includingNike, Samsung and Motorola); and artist, Kadir Nelson (American artist whose works have been exhibited in national and international publications, art galleries, museums and on...
Zecco, May 23, 2013
...Killer's "When You Were Young," and numerous commercials for brands includingNike, Samsung and Motorola); and artist, Kadir Nelson (American artist whose works have been exhibited in national and international publications, art galleries, museums and on...
Michigan Live, May 21, 2013
..."When You Were Young," and numerous commercials for brands including Nike, Samsung and Motorola); and award-winning artist, Kadir Nelson (American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, art galleries,...
PR Newswire, May 21, 2013
..."When You Were Young," and numerous commercials for brands including Nike, Samsung and Motorola); and award-winning artist, Kadir Nelson (American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, art galleries,...
School Library Journal, May 21, 2013
...and Donna Jo Napoli’s Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya (S&S, 2010), illustrated by Kadir Nelson, that also incorporated a related hands-on activity. Participants agreed with one librarian who said that the session opened her eyes to an...