Kadir Nelson
Autor(a) de Nelson Mandela
About the Author
Kadir Nelson began drawing at the age of three, and painting at age ten. He won an art scholarship to study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors, he began his professional career as an artist. He has worked with numerous companies including Dreamworks, where he mostrar mais served as the lead conceptual artist for Amistad and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; Sports Illustrated; Coca-Cola; The United States Postal Service; and Major League Baseball. In 1999, he started collaborating with several notable authors on a series of picture books including Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; and Salt in His Shoes by Deloris and Roslyn Jordan. He won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, a Caldecott Honor and an NAACP Image Award for illustrating Carol Boston Weatherford's Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. He is the author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Nelson at the 2017 Texas Book Festival By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64017575
Obras por Kadir Nelson
Corretta Scott 1 exemplar
Original Paintings 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (A Marvel YA Novel) (2017) — Artista da capa, algumas edições — 793 exemplares
The Souls of Black Folk: With The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folk (1903) — Artista da capa, algumas edições — 478 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1974-05-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Locais de residência
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
San Diego, California, USA - Educação
- Pratt Institute
- Ocupações
- artist
illustrator
Membros
Críticas
Great Celebration of President Obama by Kadir Nelson!
How we now need "Yes We Can" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How we now need "Yes We Can" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taken from the wonderful spiritual song learned by so many of us when we were young, Nelson accompanies the words with beautiful images. This illustrator never disappoints. His talent is incredible and manifested in this book in a supreme way. Highlighting the diversity of our world, Nelson reinforces the multicultural universe we should embrace.
Coming away after reading I remembered learning this song when I was attending Sunday School, most likely aged six or seven. It was such a treat to have the spiritual come alive and the images felt like they jumped right off the page and into a beautiful field of wonderful diversity.
Highly recommended.… (mais)
Coming away after reading I remembered learning this song when I was attending Sunday School, most likely aged six or seven. It was such a treat to have the spiritual come alive and the images felt like they jumped right off the page and into a beautiful field of wonderful diversity.
Highly recommended.… (mais)
Listas
African American (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 26
- Membros
- 3,891
- Popularidade
- #6,512
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 295
- ISBN
- 76
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 5
Now on to the text: I love that Nelson took over 400 years of history and told the story in under 100 pages. To sit and read this book in one go feels like the entire history of this country is flashing before your eyes. The scope of it is awesome.
Of course, you can't really squeeze the whole "Story of America and African Americans" into 100 pages, can you? Not without leaving the reader feeling a little dizzy. And that's where I think the text runs into trouble. You have to skip over big stuff, and not really explain most things to satisfaction. It can be a little confusing and it has some bumpy transitions. Despite my complaints, the overall impact of the book is impressive.… (mais)