This artist's gentle illustrations are perfect with the humble, respectful text in 2013's The Cart that Carried Martin, by Eve Bunting, about the wooden cart and two mules that carried the body of Martin Luther King through the streets of Atlanta. The artist began writing books of his own in 2012, often biographies of lesser-known Blacks of note, such as Jerry Lawson, who revolutionized video games, poet George Moses Horton, and football-player-turned-artist Ernie Barnes. I met him at a Highlights workshop before his writing was published, and I'm so pleased with his success. As kind as he is talented, this is Don Tate.
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