https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/jerry-pinkney-1939-2021-childrens-book-illustrator-and-author/
(this includes some tributes)
Pinkney said:
“It’s amazing when you see the age that oftentimes I think publishers have to put on books. They’ll say from three to six or six to nine, and the very fact that we talk about children’s books. Well, children’s books for children. But for the
artists and authors, we really know that’s not true. I think most of us feel that what we’re doing is, we may be speaking about subject matter in a way that it perhaps is easier for children to understand, but when we are at our best what we are
doing is fulfilling that need, but also telling stories that, you know, adults respond to. Or perhaps putting together an information in a way that would both attract children and adults.” —from an interview for Reading Rockets
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