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Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan grew up to the sound of his mother singing from morning to night, and has shared the joy of song with children ever since. One of our most beloved illustrators, he has been the recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virgina Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; he has also been a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer, a Coretta Scott King Award winner (most recently for Let It Shine,) and the recipient of countless other awards and recognitions. He lives in Islesford, one of the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine, where he can often be found with a cluster of children, all singing.

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PublishersWeekly.com, February 2, 2012
...fondly dubbed "the Professor"among them Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X; poet Nikki Giovanni; and author and illustrator Ashley Bryan. With its unorthodox format, No Crystal Stair (whose title is taken from a line in Langston Hughess poem, "Mother...
St. Petersburg Times, January 28, 2012
...Evans for Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom; and the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton lifetime achievement award to Ashley Bryan, who in 1962 became the first African-American to both write and illustrate a published children's book. For a...
AlphaTrade Finance, January 25, 2012
...Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Ashley Bryan is the winner of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime achievement. The award, which...
Kirkus Reviews, January 25, 2012
Targeted News Service, January 24, 2012
...DALLAS, Jan. 23 -- The American Library Association issued the following news release: Ashley Bryan is the recipient of the 2012 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. The announcement was made today by the American Library...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 24, 2012
...for Kar-Ben, 1 for Graphic Universe) Simon & Schuster – 7 (or 5 if you don’t count Ashley Bryan and Susan Cooper’s lifetime achievement awards as S&S awards) (4 — or 2 — for Atheneum, 1 for S&S BFYR, 1 for Free Press, 1 for Simon Pulse...
Maine.gov, January 23, 2012
...Ashley Bryan has been awarded the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement. The award recognizes an African American author, illustrator, or author/illustrator for a body of his or her...
Publishing Perspectives, October 4, 2011
...50th year of book publishing. The final award of the evening, Artist, went to Lois Ehlert, who presenter Ashley Bryan described as having a “purity of child-like form.” Ehlert, who won the Caldecott Award in 1989 for Color Zoo, accepted her award by...
American Consumer News, September 24, 2011
...is available as a digital audiobook from Audible.com. The title, provided by Recorded Books and authored by Ashley Bryan, has also become an American Consumer News favorite.. The digital audiobook Beautiful Blackbird (Unabridged), narrated by Myra...
Superheroes and Princesses, April 16, 2011
...R both LOVE the song.  The lyrics really come to life through the bright, colorful illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Jazz Cats by David Davis is a picture book that offers a musical tour of New Orleans with the accompaniment of a few cool jazz cats.  I...