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Jan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator and author of seventy-five children’s books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book, The Great Migration: Journey to the N...показать большеJan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator and author of seventy-five children’s books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the 2012 Coretta Scott King Honor Award. It is also a Junior Library Guild Best Book, NAACP Nominee, a CCBC Best Book for 2012, and Georgia State Nominee. Gilchrist also won the 1990 Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and the 1992 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award for illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, both written by Eloise Greenfield.
My America, written and illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist along with illustrations by Ashley Bryan, is a Parents' Choice Book Award Winner for 2007 and was selected for the National Book Festival, also in 2007.
Books illustrated by Gilchrist have received ALA Notables and numerous other prestigious awards. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. Gilchrist received a BS in Art Education from Eastern Illinois University, MA in Painting from the University of Northern Iowa, an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College and a doctorate degree in English from Madison University. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives near Chicago, Illinois.показать меньше