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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Javaka Steptoe, Ron Butler, Hachette Audio

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Audiobook (Hachette Audio April 25, 2017) , Unabridged

Winner of the 2017 Randolph Caldecott Medal

Winner of the 2017 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

An IndieBound Best Seller

Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king.

Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, Javaka Steptoe's vivid text introduces young listeners to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean - and definitely not inside the lines - to be beautiful.