Kadir Nelson
webcast
Children's Pavilion
12-12:30 pm
Book Signing
1-2 pm
Kadir Nelson began his career in illustration by creating the storyboards for Steven Spielberg's film "Amistad." Since that time he has become a much-sought-after artist, illustrating many celebrated picture books, including the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Thunder Rose, the best-seller Salt in His Shoes and Ellington Was Not a Street, for which he received the 2005 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. His latest book illustrations are for the NAACP Image Award-nominated Please, Puppy, Please (Simon & Schuster, 2005) by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Jump at the Sun, 2006) by Carole Boston Weatherford. Mr. Nelson lives in California.