Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author Morrow Junior Books $16 (106p) ISBN 978-0-688-12832-6
Pinkney (Alvin Ailey; Seven Candles for Kwanzaa) takes the title of her first YA novel from a poem by Langston Hughes, who happens to be 12-year-old narrator Dee's favorite poet. No one else in Dee's new town of Wexford, Conn., however, seems to...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200100-1
The husband-and-wife team behind Dear Benjamin Banneker and Alvin Ailey continue their superb profiles of noteworthy African Americans with this rip-roarin' salute to a legendary cowboy. Andrea Pinkney's informed, colorful text, peppered with cowboy
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-545-70253-9
The grim task of writing about Dr. King’s assassination is handled with great tenderness by this husband-and-wife team. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s 39 poems sing, exhort, console, and illuminate. She explains the strike by sanitation workers that brought
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-07013-3
The Pinkneys (Hand in Hand) return with a vibrant, upbeat tribute to two prominent civil rights figures and friends, preacher Martin Luther King Jr. and singer Mahalia Jackson. Both used their powerful voices to stir people to action: “Martin’s...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Jump at the Sun $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0439-9
Children's fiction about slavery typically involves young protagonists struggling with injustice, yearning to read and risking their lives for freedom; Pinkney reinvigorates this familiar framework by infusing her work with a more personal, equally...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Pinkney. Harcourt/Gulliver $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201918-1
In the Pinkneys' (Duke Ellington) hands, a tasty family tradition and New York City history make a flavorsome pairing. It's 1915, and Christmas just isn't the same when Pap must be away from Mim and their children while he works to...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200417-0
The Pinkneys (Alvin Ailey; Seven Candles for Kwanzaa) continue their impressive collaboration with this memorable portrait of Benjamin Banneker, a free African American born in 1731. Lucid text and striking illustrations, rendered on scratchboard...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202103-0
In a starred review, PW called this biography of the first African-American inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame a ""rip-roarin' salute to a legendary cowboy."" Ages 4-8. (Nov.)
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201892-4
Banneker, an 18th-century astronomer and mathematician, was a free African American who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson about ending slavery. In a starred review, PW called this illustrated biography ""a memorable portrait."" Ages 6-10. (Aug.)
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (8p) ISBN 978-0-15-200640-2
The Pinkneys (Alvin Ailey) celebrate African American family life in this pair of board books. In I Smell Honey, a toddler watches her mother prepare a meal of sweet potato pie, fried catfish, red beans and collards; in Pretty Brown Face, a father...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Pinkney. Little, Brown $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-07016-4
The latest collaboration by this husband-and-wife team (the Caldecott Honor book Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
) recreates the renowned 1960 sit-in staged by four black college students at a Greensboro “whites only”...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Pinkney. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1958-4
The Pinkneys (who collaborated on Duke Ellington
) here shine the spotlight on African-American whalers with an original tall tale set in the 1840s that recalls elements of both Moby Dick
and Pinocchio
. Carved by his father, Galleon, from a piece...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Shane W. Evans. Little, Brown, $17 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-24780-1
Told in free verse and set in the South Darfur region of Sudan in 2003 and 2004, this potent novel from Pinkney (Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America) is built around the distinctive voice and drawings of 12-year-old narrator Amira. The...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson. Viking, $18.99 (60p) ISBN 978-0-425-28768-2
This formidable biographical poem pays homage to Ezra Jack Keats while speaking to Peter, the fictional African-American hero of The Snowy Day, the story of a black boy playing in the snow, remarkable among 1960s children’s stories in which “the...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator , illus. by Shane W. Evans. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0766-6
Pinkney (Solo Girl
; Duke Ellington
) offers a quiet, message-driven story set in the pre–civil rights South, as two parent-and-child pairs fish alongside one another in a "wide muddy stream folks around here call Jim Crow River."...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Disney-Jump at the Sun, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4231-4257-7
Ten influential black men—including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King Jr.—are profiled in this husband-and-wife team’s vibrant collaboration. Andrea Davis Pinkney introduces her subjects...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Liz Van Doren, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $16 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-201461-2
Grim foreshadowing adds weight and texture to this poignant and ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story set in Modine, N.Y., a town ""no bigger than a pig's knuckle"" but home to a long-established community of African Americans. When 12-year-old...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Author, Stephen Alcorn, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $20 (120p) ISBN 978-0-15-201005-8
Pinkney (Silent Thunder) presents eloquent portraits of 10 intrepid African-American activists for the causes of abolition, women's rights and civil rights. Exploring these individuals' childhoods as well as their accomplishments as adults, the...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Sean Qualls. Little, Brown, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-07403-2
This rich historical novel offers an unsentimental and sometimes humorous glimpse into the Great Depression. Pinkney (Sit-In) alternates between the first-person perspectives of three resilient and tenacious protagonists—12-year-old minister’s...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Brian Pinkney, Author Hyperion Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56282-413-6
In their first children's book collaboration, this markedly talented husband-and-wife team offers a warm profile of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), whose dance company lives on today. The author deftly combines elements of fiction...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, Author, Scat Cat Monroe, With, Brian Pinkney, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Pinkney. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0568-6
The talented husband-and-wife team behind Duke Ellington
turns to jazz biography once again, this time showcasing the First Lady of Song. Narrated by Scat Cat Monroe, a feline in a zoot suit, the book spins four "tracks" on Fitzgerald's
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Andrea Davis Pinkney. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59643-973-3
In this clear, comprehensive history of Motown, Pinkney (The Red Pencil) narrates as "the Groove," a chatty, older guide to Berry Gordy Jr.'s music business. With well-chosen collaborators in every department—songwriting, backup performance,...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Gillian Flint. Philomel, $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-593-11565-7
In this chapter book series opener expanding upon Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger’s She Persisted picture book series, Coretta Scott King Award winner Pinkney (The Red Pencil) presents an accessible portrait of American abolitionist, activist,...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney. Orchard, $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-545-87229-4
In a five-section treasury of poems with directions for adult readers, married collaborators Davis Pinkney and Pinkney (Loretta Little Looks Back) speak directly to children of color via joyful nursery-style rhymes and glad images of brown-skinned...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney. Little, Brown, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-53677-6
“Inspired by the collective voices of many,” the married cocreators incisively invoke oral tradition in fictionalized accounts of a Black family enduring
political and economic oppression under Jim Crow. In Mississippi, three dynamically rendered...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Daniel Minter. Little, Brown, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-18236-2
Reiteratively employing the refrain “And she was loved...,” this telling traces the life and work of Toni Morrison (1931–2019), from sidewalk chalk drawings made during her Lorain, Ohio, childhood to a legacy borne of “griot grit.” While managing...
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