Blowing the Horn: Right It

by Frank Morrison
Jun 05, 2024 | Filed in Articles & Opinion

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Illustration (c) by Frank Morrison. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here.

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Frank Morrison

Frank Morrison is the winner of the 2023 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and received a 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award for Picture Book for Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Crown. He is also the winner of the 2021 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Atheneum. He recently illustrated Harlem at Four (Random House Studio/Random, 2023).

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