American writer (born 1963)
Andrea Davis Pinkney (born 1963) is an author of numerous books for children and young adults , including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction; she writes about African-American culture . In addition to her work as an author, Pinkney has had a career as a children's book publisher and editor, including as founder of the Jump at the Sun imprint at Hyperion Books for Children , the Disney Book Group (now Disney Publishing Worldwide). She is vice president and editor-at-large for Scholastic Trade Books .
Her books have won the Coretta Scott King Award and been a Coretta Scott King Honor book,[ 1] [ 2] School Library Journal best books three times,[ 3] New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable books, and more.
Pinkney is a graduate of Syracuse University 's Newhouse School of Public Communications and is a former member of the Newhouse School's Board of Trustees. She lives in New York City with her husband, award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney , and their two children.
Andrea Davis was born September 25, 1963, in Washington D.C. and was raised in Connecticut. Her parents were involved in the civil rights movement and exposed her to the cause from early on, even taking her to the annual conference of the National Urban League during many of her summer vacations .[citation needed
Pinkney graduated from Syracuse University in 1985 with a degree in journalism and began working as an editor at Mechanix Illustrated Essence Simon & Schuster and Scholastic .[citation needed
While working at one of these early editing jobs, she met Brian Pinkney , a Caldecott Honor -winning children's book illustrator, whom she later married. The two have collaborated on a number of books, including Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down , Duke Ellington , Seven Candles for Kwanzaa , and Dear Benjamin Banneker .[citation needed
She was chosen to deliver the 2014 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Children's Literature Research Collections, Saturday, May 3, 2014, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CDT). She was cited in January 2013 for "significant contributions to literature for young people provided through a body of work that brings a deeper understanding of African American heritage".
She currently lives in Brooklyn , New York.[ 4]
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 2011[ 5]
Coretta Scott King Award , 2013[ 6] The George Arents Award (Syracuse University's highest alumni honor, presented annually to alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their chosen fields)[ 7]
Medgar Evers College Lifetime Achievement Award[ 8] Selected bibliography [ edit ] Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra Ella Fitzgerald ; illustrated by Brian PinkneySit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyBecause of You John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship ; illustrated by Keith Henry BrownA Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day ; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou FancherSojourner Truth's Step Stomp Stride ; illustrated by Brian PinkneySeven Candles for Kwanzaa ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyAlvin Ailey ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyAnd She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life in Stories ; illustrated by Daniel MinterBoycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyMartin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyDear Benjamin Banneker ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyBill Pickett Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyMims Christmas Jam ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyFishing Day ; illustrated by Shane EvansPeggony Po ; illustrated by Brian PinkneySleeping Cutie ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyNarrative nonfiction [ edit ] Hand in Hand: 10 Black Men Who Changed America ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyLet It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters ; illustrated by Stephen AlcornMartin Rising: Requiem for a King ; illustrated by Brian PinkneyRhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound Chapter book series [ edit ] She Persisted: Harriet Tubman She Persisted: Ella Fitzgerald Dear Mr. President: Abraham Lincoln Solo Girl Meet the Obamas Peace Warriors Middle grade novels [ edit ] The Red Pencil Raven in a Dove House With the Might of Angels Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It Bird in a Box Hold Fast to Dreams Silent Thunder Ten9Eight: Teen Business Blasts Off Bright Brown Baby Treasury Peek-a-You Count to Love Baby Boy, You Are a Star Hello, Baby Girl Hey, Beautiful You Pretty Brown Face I Smell Honey Watch Me Dance Shake, Shake, Shake *All baby books illustrated by Brian PinkneyStay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls Birthday Wishes 100 Reasons to Love Reading [ 9] [ 10]
^ "Coretta Scott King Book Awards | Awards & Grants" . www.ala.org . Retrieved March 29, 2019 .^ Admin (November 30, 1999). "Past NCB Lists" . Association for Library Service to Children (Alsc) . Retrieved March 29, 2019 . ^ "Reviews+" . School Library Journal . Retrieved March 29, 2019 .^ "Andrea Davis Pinkney | Scholastic.com" . Archived from the original on December 6, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2008 .^ "Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners" . National Council for the Social Studies . Retrieved January 3, 2019 .^ "Andrea Davis Pinkney, Bryan Collier win 2013 Coretta Scott King Book Awards" . ALA. January 28, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2014 .^ "Arents Award Past Recipients" . Syracuse University Alumni Association . Retrieved March 29, 2019 .^ "AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST FAITH RINGGOLD AND AUTHOR ANDREA PINKNEY RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS AT CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY RECEPTION AT MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE" . City University of New York . Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .^ Davis Pinkney, Andrea. "All Books" . Andrea Davis Pinkney . Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2019 . ^ "Search: Andrea Davis Pinkney" . Google Books
General winners (1974–1988)
Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield (1974)Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of the Gospel Singers by Jesse C. Jackson (1975)Dragonwings Laurence Yep (1976)The Trouble They Seen by Dorothy Sterling (1977)The Biography of Daniel Inouye by Jan Goodsell (1978)Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations edited by Peter Nabokov (1979)War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute by Nancy Wood (1980)The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer (1981)Coming to North America from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico by Susan Carver and Paula McGuire (1982)Morning Star, Black Sun by Brent Ashabranner (1983)Mexico and the United States by E.B. Fincher (1984)To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today by Brent Ashabranner (1985)Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent Ashabranner (1986)Happily May I Walk by Arlene Hirschfelder (1987)Black Music in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins (1988)
Secondary level winners (grades 7–12, since 1989)
Marian Anderson by Charles Patterson (1989)Paul Robeson by Rebecca Larsen (1990)Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neal Hurston by Mary E. Lyons (1991)Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Jeri Ferris (1992)Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (1993)The March on Washington by James Haskins (1994)Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Zak Mettger (1995)A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II by Ellen Levine (1996)The Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins (1997)Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer (1998)Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (1999)Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People by Sharon Linnea (2000)Tatan'ka Iyota'ke: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (2001)Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity by Barbara C. Cruz (2002)The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: a Headline Court Case by Harvey Fireside (2003)Early Black Reformers by James Tackach (2004)The Civil Rights Act of 1964 edited by Robert H. Mayer (2005)No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (2006)Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim (2007)Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man by Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach (2008)Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez (2009)Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (2010)An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine M. Alphin (2011)Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connors by Larry Dane Brimner (2012)Stolen into Slavery the True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man by Judith Fradin and Dennis Fradin (2013)(none in 2014)
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (2015)Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery by Winifred Conkling (2016)March (Trilogy) John Lewis , Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (2017)Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner (2018)A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Claire Hartfield (2019)Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (2020)Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne (2021)Race Against Time by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace (2022)Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment by Lawrence Goldstone (2023)Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (2024)
Middle level winners (grades 5–8, since 2001)
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2001)Prince Estabrook: Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkel (2002)Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (2003)In America's Shadow by Kimberly Komatsu and Kaleigh Komatsu (2004)The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2005)César Chávez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Bárbara Cruz (2006)Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (2007)Black and White Airmen: Their True History by John Fleischman (2008)Drama of African-American History: The Rise of Jim Crow by James Haskins and Kathleen Benson with Virginia Schomp (2009)Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (2010)(none in 2011)
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (2012)Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours by Ann Bausum (2013)Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (2014)The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield (2015)(none in 2016)
(none in 2017)
Fighting for Justice—Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (2018)America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience From A to Z by Wendy Ewald (2019)Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (2020)Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith (2021)Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford (2022)Overground Railroad: The Green Book and The Roots of Black Travel in America (The Young Adult Adaptation) by Candacy Taylor (2023)Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell (2024)
Elementary level winners (grades K–6, since 1989)
Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris (1989)In Two Worlds: A Yup’ik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness and Alice Rivers (1990)Shirley Chisolm by Catherine Scheader (1991)The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i by Fay Stanley (1992)Madam C.J. Walker by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (1993)Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter by Mary E. Lyons (1994)What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson by Jeri Ferris (1995)Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave by Monty Roessel (1996)Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (1997)Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage (1998)Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby (1999)Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (2000)The Sound that Jazz Makes by Carole Boston Weatherford (2001)Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitter by Nanette Mellage (2002)Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia by Richard Griswold del Castillo (2003)Sacagawea by Liselotte Erdrich (2004)Jim Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac (2005)Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven (2006)John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson (2007)Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise (2008)Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship by Nikki Giovanni (2009)Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo (2010)Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2011)Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist adapted by Gina Capaldi and Q. L. Pearce (2012)Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim (2013)Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band by Anne Rockwell (2014)Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (2015)Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate ; The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (2016)Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service by Annette Bay Pimentel (2017)The Youngest Marcher—The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson (2018)The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just by Mélina Mangal (2019)The Undefeated Kwame Alexander (2020)William Still and His Freedom Stories by Don Tate (2021)I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story by Martha Brockenbrough and Grace Lin (2022)Where We Come From by Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin , Shannon Gibney, and John Coy (2023)My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom (2024)
