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

ISBN-13:	9780316213882
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	25,938
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1050L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

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.