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          Javaka Steptoe introduces and shares some of the backstory for creating Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

        1. Javaka Steptoe introduces and shares some of the backstory for creating Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
        2. Javaka Steptoe is the erstwhile little boy who was featured, along with his sister Bweela, in his father's picture book Daddy Is a Monster.
        3. Javaka Steptoe is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator.
        4. Follow Javaka Steptoe and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Javaka Steptoe Author Page.
        5. Javaka Steptoe is a children's book author and illustrator born in in New York City.

          6. Javaka Steptoe is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator.!

          • 2017 Caldecott Award for Radiant Child
          • 2017 NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Literary Work – Children for Radiant Child
          • 2017 ALA Coretta Scott Award for Radiant Child
          • 2011 The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor Book for Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow
          • 2011 Bookbinder's Guild of New York, New York Book Show award winner for Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
          • 2010 New York Times Bestseller for Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
          • 2009 Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center Peeks Program, The Creative Process Residency
          • 2007 Humanities Washington Grant The Creative Process (Arts and Education)

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          Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Musical National Tour Returns This Fall!

          After phenomenally successful tours in the 2008-09 and 2011-12 seasons that visited well over 60 cities, Dallas Children's Theater is bringing back its original musical adaptation of the Caldecott Award winning African folktale.

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