Children's Book Illustration
Nelson has collaborated in creating children's books with several authors, including Ntozake Shange; children's book authors Donna Jo Napoli, Nikki Grimes and Carole Boston Weatherford; director Spike Lee; and actors Debbie Allen and Will Smith.
In 2009, he published Change Has Come, with illuminated quotations from President Barack Obama.
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Famous quotes containing the words children, book and/or illustration:
“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“You that would judge me do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“An illustration is no argument,—nor do I maintain the wiping of a looking-glass clean, to be a syllogism;Mbut you all, may it please your worships, see the better for it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)