Shadra Strickland

Shadra Strickland

  • 5 stars across 6 books
Toni Morrison is 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 Nobel Prize for Literature 1993. 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 five books for children. Shadra Strickland studied, design, writing, and illustration at Syracuse University and later went on to complete her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her work in her first picture book, Bird, written by Zetta Elliott. Strickland co-illustrated Our Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She teaches illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her online at ShadraStrickland.com.
1st October 2008

Bird

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8th February 2018

Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World

A stellar ensemble of picture book creators—all women—join together to celebrate a sampling of history’s young female re... MoreShaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World

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1st March 2016

Please, Louise

A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize... MorePlease, Louise

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8th November 2012

The Diary of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess

2013 NAACP Image Award Nominee2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Award WinnerA lively tale of one young woman’s adventure to pas... MoreThe Diary of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess

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8th October 2026

Gifts from Crows

Based on the true story of a girl and the crows in her backyard, this adventure explores the mysteries of friendship acr... MoreGifts from Crows

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