Now she creates bold, brilliant children's books that shine with color. Ringgold celebrates the hope that once nurtured her, and offers it to children living in another difficult era. Ringgold, who has been honored with fifty awards for art including the Guggenheim, and will be recieving her seventh honorary doctorate, is finding great joy in creating for a new audience.
Children are imaginative, open, inquisitive and excited about everything.
The things they experience in childhood will be with them for the rest of their lives and it's nice to be a part of that. Ringgold's art and story have found a new freedom when she writes for children. One of the things you can do so well with children is to blend fantasy and reality. Kids are ready for it, they don't have to have everything lined up and real. It's not that they don't know it's not real, they just don't care.