Author: Valerie Flournoy
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 03/29/1985
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 10.94h x 8.72w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780803700970
Audience: Ages 4-8
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 681 / Patchwork Quilt
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/1993 pg. 810
About the Author
Jerry Pinkney is one of America's most admired children's book illustrators. He has won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Awards, the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. Recently a member of the National Council of the Arts and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Jerry Pinkney lives with his wife, author Gloria Jean Pinkney, in Westchester County, New York.