Grandma's gift
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
| Main Author: | Velasquez, Eric. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Walker,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Audience: |
005-008. |
| Awards: |
Pura BelpreĢ Illustrator Award, 2011 |
| ISBN: |
9780802720825 080272082X 9780802720832 (reinforced) 0802720838 (reinforced) 9780802735362 |
| Author Notes: |
ERIC VELASQUEZ is the author and illustrator of Grandma's Records and the illustrator of The Piano Man , for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award. His most recent collaborations with Carole Boston Weatherford include I, Matthew Henson , which received four starred reviews, and Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive , which received two starred reviews. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and lives in New York. |