Remembering Children's Illustrator Jerry Pinkney

On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.

Animals seek shelter in a big, warm barn during a cold, snowy night.

The summer night is full of wonderful sounds and scents as Susan falls asleep. Awarded the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration in 1987.

While out hiking, a family comes upon the site of an old house and find some clues about the people that once lived there.

When she and her grandmother go to help with preparations for a big family reunion, Tanya learns about the history of the farm in Virginia where Grandma grew up.

Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life. Awarded the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration in 1986.

A grandfather tells his granddaughter about his experience on the Underground Railroad and his escape from slavery.

A young girl receives a pair of beautiful red shoes from her Tia Rosita and finds different uses for them until she grows enough for them to fit.

An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find. Awarded the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator Honors in 2017. 

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

Chaos results when a dream tells all the children and animals of the world that they should do whatever they want without fear of adult reprisal.

A black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral.

In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library. Awarded the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration in 2002.

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. Awarded the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration in 1989.

Three Billy goats must outwit the big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they have to cross on their way up the mountain.

In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle. Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 2010.