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Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: Expect the Unexpected
Dare Coulter. Photo: Joshua Steadman for WALTER Magazine. The first thing one learns about working with Dare Coulter is to expect the unexpected. Her beautiful world has its own rules of order and its own rhythms and rhymes. Adages, idioms, metaphors need to be rewritten. Case in point — for...
Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: A Higher Level
R. Alnita Coulter and Dare Coulter. Photo courtesy of R. Alnita Coulter. When my daughter Dare Coulter heard she had won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, she screamed. So did I, and the rest of our family, as we gathered around computer screens like they gathered around TV consoles...
2023: The Year in Words and Pictures
Some of the most indelible imagery in Big, this year’s Caldecott Medal–winning title by Vashti Harrison, is of breaking free of constraints, as a protagonist who feels trapped “make[s] more space for herself,” emerging into a stunning double gatefold. Big was a BIG deal this year, with additional accolades including...
2024 CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance by Dare Coulter
I just want to start by saying the real award for me is to be honored by all of you. To be in a room full of people who have fought the fight and have done the work that embodies what the Coretta Scott King Book Awards represent is humbling....
An American Story
An American Story is a captivating and thought-provoking book written by Kwame Alexander and beautifully illustrated by up-and-coming artist Dare Coulter. The book's artwork, which features paintings, photographs of polymer and clay sculptures, and drawings, heightening the impact of the historical narrative. Part of what makes Coulter's illustrations so captivating is the...
Five questions for Dare Coulter
“How do you tell a story that starts in Africa and ends in horror…How do you tell a story about slavery?” An American Story (Little, Brown, 7–11 years) by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dare Coulter, is a picture book framed as a classroom lesson inspired by Alexander’s daughter. Coulter’s unforgettable...
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