![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His handmade puppets took on a regal quality. Sunlight streams through his delicate watercolors, in the pages of Beautiful Blackbird (winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Atheneum, $19.99) and Can't Scare Me (Atheneum, $16.99), whether he was recounting an elegy or a folktale brimming with humor. Literacy-both textual and visual-was the passion he preached, in the most loving, uplifting way. He loved Shakespeare and Nikki Giovanni and Eloise Greenfield-especially her poem "Things." He didn't recite so much as sing the lines of poetry he shared, and with children, he always held out the book-even though he knew every word by heart-so they would make the connection between the phrases he spoke and the words on the page. If you've never heard him recite "My People" by Langston Hughes, listen here. Beloved children's book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan embodied joy. ![]()
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