Jerry Pinkney (1939–2021)
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Jerry Pinkney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 22, 1939. He began drawing as a four-year-old child, studied commercial art at the Dobbins Vocational School, and received a full scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. After graduating, Pinkney worked in design and näytä lisää illustrations, helped found Kaleidoscope Studios, and later opened the Jerry Pinkney Studio. His is a children's book illustrator and has created the art for over one hundred titles including Julius Lester's John Henry, Sam and the Tigers, and The Old African, plus adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl and The Nightingale. He has won numerous awards including six Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, four New York Times Best Illustrated Book awards, and the Hamilton King Award. He also received the Virginia Hamilton Literary award from Kent State University in 2000, the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion in 2004, the Original Art's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2006, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 2016, and the Coretta Scott King -Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. In addition to holding numerous one-man retrospectives and exhibiting his work in more than one hundred international group shows, Pinkney's art resides in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Brandywine River Art Museum. He has taught art at the Pratt Institute, the University of Delaware, and the University of Buffalo. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Illustrator and writer Jerry Pickney at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83473856
Tekijän teokset
The Little Match Girl (Adapted & Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney) (1967) — Adapter & Illustrator — 192 kappaletta
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 4 kappaletta
The Horn Book Magazine, Awards Issue 1 kappale
Caldecott medal acceptance 1 kappale
Μύθοι Αισώπου 1 kappale
Associated Works
From Sea to Shining Sea A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (1993) — Kuvittaja — 680 kappaletta
The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary (2005) — Avustaja — 243 kappaletta
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (2019) — Kuvittaja — 162 kappaletta
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Kuvittaja — 98 kappaletta
The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu — Kuvittaja — 1 kappale
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1978 — Kuvittaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1939-12-22
- Kuolinaika
- 2021-10-20
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- heart attack
- Asuinpaikat
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA - Koulutus
- Philadelphia Museum College of Art
- Ammatit
- Painter
Children's Book Author
Children's Book Illustrator - Suhteet
- Pinkney, Gloria Jean (wife)
Pinkney, J. Brian (son)
Pinkney, Myles C. (son)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis (daughter-in-law)
Pinkney, Sandra L. (daughter-in-law) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- University of Southern Mississippi Medallion (2004)
Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award ( [2006])
Regina Medal (2005)
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award (2016)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (2016) - Agentti
- Sheldon Fogelman
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Jerry Pinkney was an illustrator of children's books and the winner of numerous awards including one Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors. In 2004 he won the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for outstanding contributions in the field of children’s literature.
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The Lion & the Mouse Tekijä: Jerry Pinkney
One of my absolute favorite wordless picture books to look through. Absolutely stunning. Jerry Pinkney was so talented.
This is a beautiful story by Hans Christian Andersen. An egg is found in the nest amid the others. This one is quite different than the others. When hatched it is quite strange. Away from the others he is ostracized. Diving into the deep, freezing cold, alone and freezing, caught in the ice death seems near. But even though he did not have enough to eat, slowly the earth became more soft and tender. In front of him were a flock of birds, very much like him, ever so slowly, he gained strength and began to stretch himself down into the water he began to fly, and those who saw him believed he was the most beautiful of all.… (lisätietoja)
Gr 3–7—This illustrated memoir centers the late Caldecott Medalist's childhood in 1940s Philadelphia, capturing his
voice and heart through the sepia-toned sketches and earnest recollections. Perhaps we didn't get to read this as
Pinkney had envisioned it, but for his admirers and kids everywhere, this is just perfect.
voice and heart through the sepia-toned sketches and earnest recollections. Perhaps we didn't get to read this as
Pinkney had envisioned it, but for his admirers and kids everywhere, this is just perfect.
A mongoose is adopted by an English family living in India, and soon goes to war with the cobras living in the garden.
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