Learn more about his life and legacy at. Jerry Pinkney passed away in 2021 at the age of eighty-two. He illustrated two books written by his wife of sixty-one years, Gloria Jean: Back Home and The Sunday Outing. He won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, and many other prizes and honors. Jerry Pinkney was one of America’s most admired children’s book illustrators and illustrated more than one hundred picture books. Lester passed away in 2018 at the age of seventy-eight. He taught for over three decades at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded all three of the university’s most prestigious faculty awards. His novel To Be a Slave is the first Newbery Medal Honor Book by a Black author. He was an academic who taught for 32 years (19712003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He won numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association Notable Book award, the New York Times Outstanding Book award, the Caldecott Honor Book award, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Brer Rabbit is causing trouble again for his fellow creatures Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and the rest-this time in an omnibus edition that brings together all. Julius Lester was an American writer of books for children and adults. Julius Lester was an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of books for both adults and children.
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