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:
“Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.”
—John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen—but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)