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Award-winning author and illustrator Eric Velasquez tells the story of an art contest that launched his career as an illustrator -- and the steps his grandmo...
Eric Velásquez has 76 books on Goodreads with 26533 ratings. Eric Velásquez’s most popular book is Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story.
What do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! Award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez’s delightfully meta story is now in Spanish.
Nov 24, 2014 · Eric Velasquez, illustrator, author. Walker & Company, 2010. www.ericvelasquez.com/. Eric Velasquez was born in New York City. His dual heritage as the son of Afro-Puerto Rican parents gave him an unique culture perspective.
Books Written and/or Illustrated Eric Velásquez. Eric Velasquez earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and has illustrated over 30 children’s books. His first picture book “The Piano Man” by Debbie Chocolate, published by Bloomsbury won the Coretta-Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, and in 2010 Eric was awarded an NAACP ...
Feb 16, 2010 · To describe illustrator Eric Velasquez as a “prolific artist” would be an understatement. Before snagging his first picture book contract, he created art for more than 300 book jackets and interior illustrations — more published art than many illustrators create in a lifetime.
Velasquez (Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library) creates pared-down compositions that immediately draw readers into Ginsberg’s facial expressions and emotions. The realistic oil paintings depict the justice early on as a cello-playing, baton-twirling teenager who loses her mother just before her high school graduation.
