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Yesterday (10/20/21) brought news that Jerry Pinkney died of a heart attack at age 81. There are any number of his many books to choose from for a #tbt post, but I chose his wordless retelling of Aesop's fable The Lion & the Mouse. This was the work that won him Caldecott gold after winning five honors! John Henry, retold by Julius Lester, is another of my favorites. I still cannot read that and Mr. Pinkney's retelling of The Little Matchgirl without crying.
Mr. Pinkney illustrated over a 100 books and picture books. He primarily worked with watercolor and often added a dash of red somewhere in his paintings. He was a gentle and generous man and I never missed an opportunity to listen to him speak a conferences. Mrs. Churchill and I not only got to hear him speak and watch him paint at a conference, but he listened to us present a talk about how we used Lion & Mouse as a mentor text in a wordless book unit!
Take a moment to search your local library catalog for his name. Choose any title and you won't be sorry.
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