num_pages: 40
description: Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardJean-Michel Basquiat and his unique collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that he was a little boy who saw art in poetry books and museums in games and in the words that we speak and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.
language: English
title: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers