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Jerry Pinkney
58 Total Resources 6 Lifetime Achievement Awards 111 Total Book Awards 55 Books
Our Original Resources 13
In-depth Written Interview with Jerry Pinkney about
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about The Patchwork Quilt
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about The Moon Over Star
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about A Place to Land
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about In Plain Sight
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about Minty
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about The Talking Eggs
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about Half a Moon and One Whole Star
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about God Bless the Child
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about Goin' Someplace Special
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about Mirandy and Brother Wind
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Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Jerry Pinkney about Count on Your Fingers African Style
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Jerry Pinkney
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About the Author 1
Audio Name Pronunciation with Jerry Pinkney
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Author Interviews 26
In-depth Written Interview with Jerry Pinkney
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2016 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance Speech given by Jerry Pinkney
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2016 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance Speech given by Jerry Pinkney
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney
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Insights into the Coretta Scott King Book Award from Jerry Pinkney
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney
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Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, 2016, given by Jerry Pinkney
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Tortoise & the Hare
Created by Publishers Weekly KidsCast
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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2010 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech given by Jerry Pinkney about The Lion and the Mouse
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Little Mermaid
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about A Place to Land
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Lion and the Mouse
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Lion and the Mouse
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Lion and the Mouse
Created by Library of Congress
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about A Place to Land
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about Sweethearts of Rhythm
Created by Gathering Books
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Old African
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about The Old African
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about Three Little Kittens
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about A Place to Land
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Interview with Jerry Pinkney about In Plain Sight
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Guest post by Jerry Pinkney about John Henry
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Lifetime Achievement Awards 6
![Carle Honors, Artist, 2006-2022](/images/awards/117.jpg.pagespeed.ce.i30UiiCmgT.jpg)
Carle Honors, Artist, 2006-2022
Honor, 2014
![Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005-2023](/images/awards/201.png)
Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005-2023
Illustrator Winner, 2006
![Regina Medal, 1959-2024](/images/list_image/4442.jpg)
Regina Medal, 1959-2024
Winner, 2005
Books by Jerry Pinkney 55
![A Place to Land](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0823443310.jpg)
![A Walk in the Woods](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0823449653.jpg)
![The Lion and the Mouse](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0316013560.jpg)
![The Ugly Duckling](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/068815932X.jpg)
![John Henry](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0803716060.jpg)
![The Moon Over Star](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0803731078.jpg)
![Turtle in July](/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0027828816.jpg)
![The Patchwork Quilt](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0803700970.jpg)
![Goin' Someplace Special](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0689818858.jpg)
![The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0803706197.jpg)
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
by Robert D. San Souci and Jerry Pinkney
20 Resources3 Awards
![Mirandy and Brother Wind](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0394887654.jpg)
![Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0803718888.jpg)
![Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life](/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0316383856.jpg)
Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life
19 Resources7 Awards
![The Old African](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0803725647.jpg)
![Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0064461343.jpg)
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
by Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little, and Jerry Pinkney
18 Resources2 Awards
![The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0375837590.jpg)
The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll
by Patricia C. McKissack and Jerry Pinkney
17 Resources3 Awards
![The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/080370271X.jpg)
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
17 Resources2 Awards
![Half a Moon and One Whole Star](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0689714157.jpg)
![Rikki-Tikki-Tavi](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0688143202.jpg)
![Black Cowboy, Wild Horses](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0803717873.jpg)
![The Welcome Chair](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1534429778.jpg)
![Song of the Trees](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0803754523.jpg)
![Mary McLeod Bethune](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0064461688.jpg)
![In for Winter, Out for Spring](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0152386378.jpg)
![In Plain Sight: A Game](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1626722552.jpg)
![The Three Billy Goats Gruff](/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0316341576.jpg)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
16 Resources4 Awards
![God Bless the Child](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0060287977.jpg)
![Drylongso](/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0152015876.jpg)
![Home Place](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/068971758X.jpg)
![Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion: A Swahili Tale](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0785796908.jpg)
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion: A Swahili Tale
by Verna Aardema and Jerry Pinkney
13 Resources1 Award
![Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo](/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0803720289.jpg)
Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo
by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
13 Resources1 Award
![Count on Your Fingers African Style](/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0863162509.jpg)
![Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales](/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0803724519.jpg)
![Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0316056960.jpg)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
13 Resources1 Award
![Pretend You're a Cat](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0140559930.jpg)
![I Want to Be](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0803712863.jpg)
![Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0786818573.jpg)
![The Little Match Girl](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0142301884.jpg)
![Apples on a Stick](/media/bookimages/covers/25815_hi.jpg)
![A Home in the Barn](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0066237874.jpg)
Series by Jerry Pinkney1
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