Our country was still recovering from the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression was finally ending, and World War II was just beginning," Pinkney wrote in a 2016 essay for WHYY - which you can find here. Growing up in the 1940s, I was also smack in the middle of another turbulent era in American history. "I was born in 1939, smack in the middle of a family of eight. Pinkney also frequently collaborated with his wife, Gloria Jean, a children's book author.
And millennials will remember the numerous books by Julius Lester that he illustrated, including John Henry and The Last Tales of Uncle Remus. Taylor's novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryin 1977. Gen X readers will remember Pinkney's covers for Virginia Hamilton's The Planet of Junior Brown from 1971 and Mildred D.
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