Kadir Nelson
Autor de Nelson Mandela
Sobre El Autor
Kadir Nelson began drawing at the age of three, and painting at age ten. He won an art scholarship to study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors, he began his professional career as an artist. He has worked with numerous companies including Dreamworks, where he mostrar más served as the lead conceptual artist for Amistad and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; Sports Illustrated; Coca-Cola; The United States Postal Service; and Major League Baseball. In 1999, he started collaborating with several notable authors on a series of picture books including Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; and Salt in His Shoes by Deloris and Roslyn Jordan. He won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, a Caldecott Honor and an NAACP Image Award for illustrating Carol Boston Weatherford's Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. He is the author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Nelson at the 2017 Texas Book Festival By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64017575
Obras de Kadir Nelson
Corretta Scott 1 copia
Original Paintings 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1974-05-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
San Diego, California, USA - Educación
- Pratt Institute
- Ocupaciones
- artist
illustrator
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Reseñas
Listas
African American (1)
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- 10
- También por
- 26
- Miembros
- 3,912
- Popularidad
- #6,469
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 296
- ISBNs
- 76
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 5
Once I got past that I read a good book with beautiful illustrations.
It’s a narrow path to walk- having books that are a true representation of black Americans without the critical race theory skewing them as is common today.
That makes it even more important to use discernment when selecting a title.