Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe’s vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat’s own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn’t always have to be neat or clean–and definitely not inside the lines–to be beautiful.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Steptoe, Javaka
Published: 10/25/2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316213882
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.80h x 9.30w x 0.60d