Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was a Nobel Prize–winning American
author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern
canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The
Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize
for Literature.
Slade Morrison was born in Ohio and educated in New York City. He
studied art at SUNY Purchase and collaborated with his mother, Toni
Morrison, on their books for children.
Sean Qualls’s work is a mixed media combination of painting,
drawing, and collage. He has illustrated many picture books,
including Before John Was a Jazz Giant, which received
a Coretta Scott King Honor Award; The Poet Slave of
Cuba, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; Dizzy, an ALA Notable
Book and a Kirkus Reviews, School Library
Journal, and Child Magazine best book, as well as
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book and a Booklist Editor’s Choice;
and Emmanuel’s Dream, which was a Schneider Award winner
and an Amazon Best Book of the Month. He lives in Brooklyn,
New York.
The Morrisons present a modern fable about the need for independence as well as the beauty of being a part of everything else. Little Cloud discovers "I can be me and part of something too."--Yellow Brick Road, May/June 2010
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