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Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life
Jerry Pinkney
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Ages: 9+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown/Hachette
ISBN: 978-0-316-38385-1
Keywords: Racism, Learning Disabilities, Families, Illustration
A famous illustrator candidly remembers his passion for creating art, his unidentified dyslexia, and his youth in a Black neighborhood in 1940s and 1950s Philadelphia. Dynamic sketches. Epilogue, time line.