Hey Pop, It’s been a minute since I’ve written you a proper letter, mostly because I don’t know your address or even if they have email wherever you are. When you were around, we’d write each other lots of letters, even if we knew we’d be meeting up for breakfast the next day. It’s still […]
About Christopher Myers
Christopher Myers is an artist, essayist and writer who lives in Brooklyn. His latest book is My Pen published by Disney Press, and the forthcoming Know What You Know: A dialogue between Father and Son, a conversation with an unfinished text by his father Walter Dean Myers.
Orlando
June 24, 2016 by 2 Comments
We walk in, by ones or twos, flash IDs and smiles. If you are lucky, the dance floor is already crowded and you can simply slip between the sounds, into the movement. There are colored lights spinning over skin, over carefully chosen outfits, over movements practiced in home mirrors, over moments of joy and sweat […]
2015 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance
June 29, 2015 by 2 Comments
I’ve just about given up on the world. A friend of mine, a book-wise, hanger-thin Jamaican, whose spider fingers dance across endless stories, whose easy smile softens the formality of his dress, sent me an essay he wrote, about how much safer he felt as a child in the gangster-riddled streets of 1980s Kingston than […]
Young dreamers
August 6, 2013 by 39 Comments
I had wanted to write something funny. I thought I had something to add to recent discussions about the diversity and lack thereof in children’s literature — a unique perspective, perhaps. I was raised in the midst of these conversations about cultural diversity in children’s media. My father, Walter Dean Myers, has been on the […]
