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Brian Pinkney


Born
Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
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Genre
Children's Books


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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Average rating: 4.06 · 21,396 ratings · 3,777 reviews · 72 distinct works • Similar authors
Max Found Two Sticks
3.95 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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Puppy Truck
3.25 avg rating — 387 ratings — 4 editions
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Time for Kenny
3.52 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2021
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On the Ball
2.93 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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The Adventures of Sparrowboy
3.60 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Hush, Little Baby
4.04 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Jojo's Flying Side Kick
4.05 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Thumbelina
3.85 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Cosmo and the Robot
3.22 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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