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My Block Looks Like
Illustrator Frank Morrison began his career as an artist breakdancing and creating graffiti art. These influences are evident in his illustrations for My Block Looks Like, in which he turns Janelle Harper’s joyful ode to city life into a story about what a child experiences on their way to a...
Blowing the Horn: Right It
We have it all Brilliance, talent, artists, writers, philosophers, scholars, educators, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, Activists, and me Illustration (c) by Frank Morrison. From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn"...
Review of My Block Looks Like
My Block Looks Like by Janelle Harper; illus. by Frank MorrisonPreschool, Primary Viking 40 pp.1/24 9780593526309 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593526316 $10.99Harper and Morrison’s vibrant picture book focuses on a Black tween girl’s trip through her city neighborhood on her way to a dance audition. She leaps—sometimes exuberantly blowing a pink bubble-gum...
Standing in the Need of Prayer: Frank Morrison's 2023 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
I’d like to thank the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee. Your vote truly boosted my confidence to move forward. Thanks, y’all. Working on these projects sometimes pulls from the heart. Dealing with topics that are still raw. Researching images that are so demeaning, horrific, and then having to enlighten the...
Standing in the Need of Prayer: Carole Boston Weatherford's 2023 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
It’s me, it’s me, O Lord, Standing in the need of prayer. It’s me, it’s me, O Lord, Standing in the need of prayer. It’s me, Carole Boston Weatherford, glowing with gratitude: to the ancestors for creating this powerful spiritual, to editor Sonali Fry for challenging me to make the...
Michael Datcher and Frank Morrison Talk with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Random House Children’s Books Harlem is of course a place, but is also the name of Michael Datcher’s daughter, and in Harlem at Four, Datcher and painter Frank Morrison...
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Review of Harlem at Four
Harlem at Four by Michael Datcher; illus. by Frank MorrisonPreschool, Primary Random House Studio/Random 48 pp.9/23 9780593429334 $18.99Library ed. 9780593429341 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593429358 $10.99Datcher divides his narrative into two parts. First is a Black father’s loving tribute to his daughter, four-year-old Harlem. Championed by her father for her “Malcolm X...
Review of Breaking to the Beat!
Breaking to the Beat! by Linda J. Acevedo; illus. by Frank MorrisonPrimary, Intermediate Lee & Low 32 pp.5/23 9781643796390 $19.95Acevedo and Morrison provide an engaging, gritty, urban retrospective on the role young people played in establishing break dancing and hip-hop. Set in the Bronx in the 1970s, the story follows...
2022: The Year in Words and Pictures
This year’s ALA Youth Media Award winners represent a range of experiences, expertise, interests, and topics. There are previous, beloved winners and there are newcomers to the stage — notably Doug Salati for the Caldecott Medal and Amina Luqman-Dawson for both the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Author awards. Three...
Profile of 2023 CSK Illustrator Award winner Frank Morrison
Sonali Fry and Frank Morrison. Photo courtesy of Sonali Fry. Every time I speak with Frank Morrison, I learn a cool fact about him. For instance, during one conversation, he told me that when he was a child, his favorite pastime was drawing Quicky, the official Nestle’s Nesquik mascot. What...
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