Learn more about his life and legacy at. Jerry Pinkney passed away in 2021 at the age of eighty-two. Uncle Remus: the Complete Tales by Julius Lester, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) 1.0 (1) Hardcover 50. He illustrated two books written by his wife of sixty-one years, Gloria Jean: Back Home and The Sunday Outing. He won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, and many other prizes and honors. Jerry Pinkney was one of America’s most admired children’s book illustrators and illustrated more than one hundred picture books. Lester passed away in 2018 at the age of seventy-eight.
He taught for over three decades at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded all three of the university’s most prestigious faculty awards. His novel To Be a Slave is the first Newbery Medal Honor Book by a Black author. He won numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association Notable Book award, the New York Times Outstanding Book award, the Caldecott Honor Book award, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ensconced in his small cabin, Uncle Remus holds forth while he's either cooking his dinner (such as a two-pound yam baked in ashes), drinking coffee from a tin mug, using a hog's bristle as a. Julius Lester was an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of books for both adults and children.
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