Radiant Child

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.