Janelle Harper is passionate about creating stories that reflect the children in her Bronx community. She finds inspiration in life’s rhythms, city living, and the diverse experiences of the African diaspora. When she’s not thinking about her next book, Janelle is enthusiastically playing along with TV game shows and planning her next trip across the globe.
Frank 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 dancing group that he realized painting was his true creative path. His work has been featured at Art Basel, SCOPE Art Show, and Red Dot Miami art fair, and shown at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City and the Mason Fine Art gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 was a Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Silver Medal Honoree two years in a row, for
The Roots of Rap and
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. His debut author-illustrated picture book is
Kick Push.
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