Aesop's fable about the lion and the mouse goes like this. The lion spares the life of the mouse, and the mouse later rescues the lion. Children's book illustrator Jerry Pinkney gave this tale a lush ...

Birds sing in the trees, monkeys swing from branch to branch, snakes slither below, and a hummingbird has just built her nest when, all of a sudden, fire breaks out. The Littlest Drop is Sascha ...

In the watercolor world of Philadelphia-born artist Jerry Pinkney, even small moments can capture your imagination. Lions and ...

Jerry Pinkney dreamed of drawing for a living. At 70, Pinkney has published more than 100 books for children since his first title was released in 1964. The artist won the Caldecott Medal in 2010 for ...

The 2006 Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College, to be held April 20-22, will welcome a number of celebrated African-American authors and illustrators. Notable among them are four members of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Pinkney, a prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works ranging from “The Lion and the Mouse” to ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, I was standing in the center of Woodmere Art Museum’s Charles Knox Hall, at the “Soul, Sound, and Voice: The Art of Jerry Pinkney” exhibit, unsure which of the Germantown ...

The late children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney won the Caldecott Medal for his book The Lion and the Mouse. Now his artwork and sketches for that book will be archived at the Eric Carle Museum of ...