What makes an award-winner? One of the best picture books of 2008, Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (2008) won neither the Caldecott Medal nor a Caldecott Honor. The following year, Jerry Pinkney became the first African American to win the Caldecott Medal — “given to the artist of the…
Kadir Nelson Is the Best; or, When the Caldecott Committee Strikes Out
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