STEPTOE, Javaka. Radiant Child. NY: Little, Brown and Company [2016]. 4to, [40]pp. Color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers: color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). Signed by the author/artist, Javaka Steptoe!

 

First edition. 2017 Caldecott Medal Winner! Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines – to be beautiful. Javaka Steptoe and his father, John Steptoe, are the only father and son to both win Caldecott Medals.