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  • It's cap-and-gown season, and Pinkney is just one of many kid-lit authors and illustrators addressing graduates -- and receiving honorary degrees in some cases.

    End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup 2010

  • Someone called Pinkney about the find and she started to ask around in the black community to see what people remembered.

    unknown title 2009

  • As usual in Pinkney’s books, the exquisite illustrations steal the show.

    2007 May 05 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • Starr could not report on Pinkney's inspired argu - ments in favour of a strong, central government, because, as the papers revealed: 'Pinkney's argu - ments on the first day must have satisfied judge Starr, who slept through much of the second day and some of the third.'

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • Bird’s 2010 Caldecott candidates include Jerry Pinkney’s “almost wordless” and “meticulously researched” interpretation of a fable by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse (“the kind of Pinkney book that will make converts out of people who weren’t Pinkney fans before”).

    2010 Newbery and Caldecott Medal Predictions From the School Library Journal Blog « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Bird’s 2010 Caldecott candidates include Jerry Pinkney’s “almost wordless” and “meticulously researched” interpretation of a fable by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse (“the kind of Pinkney book that will make converts out of people who weren’t Pinkney fans before”).

    2009 August 14 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • Bird’s 2010 Caldecott candidates include Jerry Pinkney’s “almost wordless” and “meticulously researched” interpretation of a fable by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse (“the kind of Pinkney book that will make converts out of people who weren’t Pinkney fans before”).

    2009 August « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • When Sheila Pinkney Kelly was in high school - wearing pressed blouses, skirts and dresses - Loudoun County was a rural outpost of 20,000 or so people, and Douglass, without the amenities of the whites 'school, was nonetheless a symbol of black accomplishment in a Jim Crow world.

    2 schools' students 'integrated' after 50 years Donna St. George 2010

  • When Sheila Pinkney Kelly was in high school - wearing pressed blouses, skirts and dresses - Loudoun County was a rural outpost of 20,000 or so people, and Douglass, without the amenities of the whites 'school, was nonetheless a symbol of black accomplishment in a Jim Crow world.

    2 schools' students 'integrated' after 50 years Donna St. George 2010

  • When Sheila Pinkney Kelly was in high school - wearing pressed blouses, skirts and dresses - Loudoun County was a rural outpost of 20,000 or so people, and Douglass, without the amenities of the whites 'school, was nonetheless a symbol of black accomplishment in a Jim Crow world.

    2 schools' students 'integrated' after 50 years Donna St. George 2010

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