![]() ![]() Andrea is also the author of the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters and Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, which won the 2013 Coretta Scott King Author Award.īrian Pinkney grew up in a household where art infused his everyday life. ![]() I don’t know how I got the idea or the habit to carry this notebook, but somewhere along the line, I did.Somewhere along the line, it occurred to me that a living, breathing person was writing those books, and that maybe I could do that.” Since then, Pinkney has authored several notable titles, including the novels The Red Pencil and Bird in a Box, and the non-fiction picture books A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down and Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride. I wrote about everything that was important to me. ![]() I had that notebook with me all the time: by my side, in my book bag, in my pillowcase, you name it. The daughter of a civil rights activist and an English teacher, Andrea Davis Pinkney “started carrying a notebook with me wherever I went. ![]()
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