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Brian Pinkney

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born

Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

gender

male

genre

Children's Books

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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, (Jerry) Brian Pinkney was raised in an artistic household. "My two brothers and sister and I played musical instruments, and we were always drawing, painting, or building things," the illustrator once recalled of his childhood. While his mother, children's book author Gloria Jean Pinkney, would inspire all her children with a love of reading, it would be his father, illustrator Jerry Pinkney, who would serve as a mentor to young Brian. "I did everything he did," Pinkney would later admit. "My desk was a miniature version of his desk. The paintbrushes and pencils I used were often the ones from his studio that were too old or too small for him to use. I had a paint set like his and a studio like his. Except my...more

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Books by Brian Pinkney

Average rating: 3.93 · 2,107 ratings · 551 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Max Found Two Sticks 3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Adventures of Sparrowboy 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hush, Little Baby 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Jojos Flying Sidekick 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Cosmo and the Robot 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Jazz Greats: Library Edition by Brian Pinkney, Kadir Nelson 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Lost Zoo by Brian Pinkney, Countee Cullen, Joseph Low (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella by Robert D. San Souci, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1932 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr. by Jean Marzollo, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator), Brian J. Pinkney (Illustrator) 3.76 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	My rating: