Kadir Nelson. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-224172-6
Nelson (Nelson Mandela) builds his tale on the simplest bedtime-story scaffolding: a bear cub loses its way home and asks other forest animals for help. What distinguishes Nelson’s creation is an atmosphere of loving-kindness and the affirmation of...
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Kadir Nelson, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator . Dial $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2850-9
The popular spiritual finds new life as a picture book celebrating diversity and community. An African-American boy is at the heart of the lyrics featured here experiencing the song's universal sentiments firsthand. The line "He's got my
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Kadir Nelson. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-178374-6
Nelson’s (I Have a Dream) large, luminous, and almost photographic paintings make this an extremely powerful picture-book biography of South Africa’s first black president. The wordless cover alone is arresting, as an older Mandela gazes serenely at
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Kadir Nelson. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-229889-8
In a skillfully crafted story about the literal and allegorical fruits of the seeds we plant, Nelson (Baby Bear) introduces a group of animals whose farmyard garden becomes a source of food, strife, and reconciliation. Nelson's emphatic sentences...
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Kadir Nelson, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator, Hank Aaron, Foreword by . Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $18.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0832-8
In his first outing as author as well as illustrator, Nelson (Ellington Was Not a Street
) delivers a history of the Negro Leagues in a sumptuous volume that no baseball fan should be without. Using a folksy vernacular, a fictional player gives an...
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