![]() ![]() In 1984, he came to New York City to pursue a career as an illustrator of books and now lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children. ![]() Cooper received a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma and, after graduating, worked as an artist for a major greeting card company. McKissack and Floyd Cooper (Author) Retail: 7.99 You Pay: 2. Louis, Missouri.įloyd Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in The Blacker the Berry and a Coretta Scott King Honor for his illustrations in Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, Meet Danitra Brown, and I Have Heard of a Land. This isnt a candy- coated mother-son relationship-Ma Dear is just as quick to tell David Earl no more buts, and stop whining, as she is to bestow a hug. ![]() ![]() McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner The Honest-to-Goodness Truth Let My People Go, written with her husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. With the aid of Coopers paintings, McKissack gives real bite to the life of domestic workers 100 years back. McKissacks 1997 work Ma Dears Aprons was inspired by her remembrances of her great-grandmother and her iconic apron. ![]()
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