Radiant child: the story of young artist jean-michel basquiat, hardcover/javaka steptoe

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen.

But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City.

Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoes vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiats own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesnt always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.