Jerry created art for the Harry Chapin Run Against Hunger commemorative poster, a foundation that helps bring food to those in need. Postal Service, National Park Service, and National Geographic.

Jerry has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, including the U.S. He has exhibited in over one hundred group shows in the USA, Japan, Russia, Italy, Taiwan and Jamaica. In addition to his work in children's books, Jerry has had over thirty one-man retrospectives at venues ranging from the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL to the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Among his many other accolades he has also been the recipient of five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards and four Coretta Scott King Honors, five New York Times Best Illustrated Book awards, and in 2006 the Original Art's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY. He has been illustrating children's books since 1964, illustrating over one hundred titles, and earned the Caldecott Medal for his nearly wordless picture book The Lion & the Mouse in 2010. He received a Caldecott Honor, among others, for the book John Henry.Ī native of Philadelphia, Jerry Pinkney studied at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) where, in 1992 he received the Alumni Award. His children's book, To Be a Slave, was recognized for a Newbery Honor and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. His very first book was an instructional music book co-authored with Pete Seeger. He is also a photographer, as well as a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs. Julius Lester is an American writer and an academic who taught for over three decades at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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