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Review of Time for Kenny
Time for Kenny by Brian Pinkney; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-073528-9 $17.99 Four brief stories take us through young Kenny’s day as he gets dressed, has an encounter with a monster-like vacuum cleaner, learns “no hands!” soccer skills, and resists bedtime. Pinkney’s text...
Review of Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It
Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Brian Pinkney Intermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 224 pp. g 9/20 978-0-316-53677-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-53676-9 $9.99 Spanning roughly three generations, covering the years 1927 to 1968, this lyrical oral history of the fictional Little...
Martin Rising
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While we normally see, on an annual basis, a new crop of picture books about the legendary civil rights leader, there seem to be even more this year in an effort to mark this somber...
On Rising
Fifty years ago today — April 4, 1968 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s transcendent Martin Rising: Requiem for a King (Scholastic, 2018), brilliantly illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney, honors the civil rights icon's life and work by shining light on...
Review of Martin Rising: Requiem for a King
Martin Rising: Requiem for a Kingby Andrea Davis Pinkney;
illus. by Brian PinkneyIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 128 pp.1/18 978-0-545-70253-9 $19.99A creative poetic celebration of the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. that also, as a song for the dead, includes a meticulous explanation of how and why he died. Henny...
On Rudine Sims Bishop's "The Pinkney Family: In the Tradition" (from 1996)
"With their art and their writing, the Pinkneys have enriched American children’s literature by illuminating the experiences of African Americans and of others as well. They are committed to telling the untold stories of African Americans, to making connections across cultures, to demonstrating, as Jerry says, that 'we as a...
Review of In Your Hands
In Your Handsby Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Brian PinkneyPreschool, Primary Atheneum 32 pp.9/17 978-1-4814-6293-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-6294-5 $10.99It looks like a baby-shower book, and it is a baby-shower book — but with a difference. On pastel backgrounds amidst the soft, swirling swoops of Pinkney’s gentle lines and colors, Weatherford...
BGHB at 50: The Adventures of Sparrowboy
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, established in 1967, we will be publishing a series of appreciations of BGHB winners and honorees from the past. This is the fourth in the series to be published in The Horn Book Magazine (see Gregory Maguire on...
Review of Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhood
Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs & Stories from an African American Childhoodby Patricia C. McKissack; illus. by Brian PinkneyPreschool, Primary, Intermediate Schwartz & Wade/Random 171 pp.1/17 978-0-375-87088-0 $24.99Library ed. 978-0-375-97088-7 $27.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-307-97495-2 $12.99Children’s book royalty and storyteller supreme, Patricia...
The Multi-talented Brian Pinkney
Brian Pinkney's art was some of the first I saw this year. Busy-Busy Little Chick chirped at me from the booth at ALA last summer, and I was smitten. While Little Chick might not be as sparkly and complicated as some of the other books we have talked about this year, it...