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Tate, Don

It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw

32 pp. | Lee | April, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60060-260-3 $17.95
(2) K-3 Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. This picture-book biography describes artist Traylor's life--born into slavery in 1854, he worked as a sharecropper after Emancipation--and how at the age of eighty-five he first began to draw on scraps of cardboard. Christie's own flat primitive style is a perfect match for Traylor's story, but the real artistry here is in Tate's finely crafted account of Traylor's first eighty years.
Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2012

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