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Frank Morrison

Frank Morrison started his journey as a graffiti artist in New Jersey, tagging walls with spray paint. It wasn’t until he visited the Louvre Museum in Paris with his dance group that he realized painting was his true creative path. His work has been featured at Art Basel, SCOPE Miami Beach, and Red Dot art fairs, and shown at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the illustrator of over twenty children’s books, including the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winners Standing in the Need of Prayer and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award winner Jazzy Miz Mozetta, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor books Little Melba and Her Big Trombone and Let the Children March. Frank now lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Family Feast!
My Block Looks Like
Harlem at Four
Standing in the Need of Prayer
Starstruck (Step into Reading)
The Adventures of Wrong Man and Power Girl!
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)
Keena Ford and the Secret Journal Mix-Up

Books

Family Feast!
My Block Looks Like
Harlem at Four
Standing in the Need of Prayer
Starstruck (Step into Reading)
The Adventures of Wrong Man and Power Girl!
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)
Keena Ford and the Secret Journal Mix-Up

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