Kadir Nelson

Award winning children’s book author and illustrator of JUST THE TWO OF US by Will Smith (winner of an NAACP Image Award), ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET by Ntozake Shange (winner of the Coretta Scott King Award), and many others, has written a history of America and African Americans. Beginning with colonial ... (meer)days when Africans came to this country on slave ships, to the civil rights movement, to casting the vote for the first African American president; this book touches on several definitive events in the story of a people whose struggles and achievements helped define America. (Talk and signing at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture & History, 101 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, 30303 at 7:00 p.m. Hosted by the Little Shop of Stories.)

Meet award-winning illustrator and author, Kadir Nelson, at the Visalia Library on June 12, 2010 at 11:00AM. Help us celebrate the Tulare County Library's 100 Year Anniversary by joining us for this Centennial Celebration event! For more information, please contact Sheryll Strachan at 713-2709.