Kadir Nelson won the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. He received Caldecott Honors for Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he also garnered a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and won an NAACP Image Award. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Nelson's authorial debut, We Are the Ship, was a New York Times bestseller, a Coretta Scott King Author Award winner, and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book. He is also the author and illustrator of the acclaimed Baby Bear.
"Nelson builds his tale on the simplest bedtime-story scaffolding:
a bear cub loses its way home and asks other forest animals for
help. What distinguishes Nelson's creation is an atmosphere of
loving-kindness and the affirmation of Baby Bear's ability to make
the journey alone."--Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"The award-winning Nelson turns from nuanced treatments of
historical subjects to this exploration of a classic preschool
trope: a lost animal's search for home. . . .
Resonant."--Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
"A final picture book, filled with moody, sumptuous paintings,
evokes the feelings of trust and vulnerability that small children
are liable to experience in a world so much bigger than they
are."--Wall Street Journal
"In Nelson's hands, the natural world is enviably ruled by kind
intentions and respect."--New York Times Book Review
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