Andrea Davis Pinkney

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Andrea Davis Pinkney

• Inspiring All Readers

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Andrea Davis Pinkney
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Life Events

• Born September 25, 1963 in Washington, DC

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• Mother a teacher, father a storyteller
• Parents involved in the
• Civil Rights Movement
• I have a dream!

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• Grew up in Connecticut

CT
DC
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Education
Attended Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
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• Majored in Journalism
• Graduated in 1985

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Family

• Married Brian Pinkney, a childrens book
  illustrator, in 1991.
• Two children
• Currently lives in Brooklyn, NY

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The Brooklyn Bridge Connects Brooklyn to what
Island?
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Career in Publishing

• Began career as a magazine editor
• Editor of
• Mechanics Illustrated
• Essence
• Simon Schuster and Scholastic book publishers

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• Previously, Vice President and Publisher at
  Houghton Mifflins Childrens Division
• Today, Vice President and Editor at Large for
  Scholastic Trade

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Helped in the creation of

• The Cheetah Girls
• The Shanna Show

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Her Life as a Writer

• Her husband suggested she begin writing books
• They collaborated on Dear Benjamin Banneker,
  Seven Candles for Kwanzaa, and Duke Ellington

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• Alvin Ailey was her first solo book
• Based on the famous African American dancer and
  choreographer

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Alvin Ailey
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Important Ideas

• Written over 20 books
• Extensive research on people and places
• Uses colorful and descriptive language

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Influences

• Her parents work during the Civil Rights
  Movement influenced her to write
• on the African American community
• Strong characters overcoming obstacles

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Images of the Civil Rights Movement
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Accomplishments

• Carter G. Woodson Award for
• Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom
  Fighters
• Caldecott Honor Award and Coretta Scott King for
• Duke Ellington The Piano Prince and His
  Orchestra

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• Syracuse University awarded her the
• 2008 George Arents Pioneer Award for Excellence
  in the Field of Publishing

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Some Nonfiction Titles

• Seven Candles for Kwanzaa
• Dear Benjamin Banneker
• Ella Fitzgerald
• The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

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Other Fiction Titles

• Hold Fast to Dreams
• Shake,Shake,
• Shake
• Abraham Lincoln
• Letters from a Slave Girl

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Latest News

• Newest book
• Boycott Blues How Rosa Parks Saved a Nation

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• Writing is so much fun! I can't believe people
  call it work. . . . I write every single day
  because I love it so much.

Andrea Davis Pinkney
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References

• Andrea Davis Pinkney. Answers.com. 2006.
  Answers Corporation. 21 January 2009
  lthttp//www.answers.com/topic/andrea-davis-pinkney
  gt.
• Andrea Davis Pinkney Biography. Scholastic.com.
  2009-1996. Scholastic Inc. 21 January 2009
  lthttp//www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp
  ?id2861print2gt.
• Civil Rights Movement. 2009. Google Images.
  13 Feb. 2009 lthttp//www.google.com/images?hlens
  a3qcivilrightsmovementgt.

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• Events Andrea Davis Pinkney. Center for
  Digital Literacy. Syracuse University. 29
  January 2009 lthttp//cdl.informationliteracy.org/p
  age/view/13gt.
• Ferron, Bonnie. Kite Tales Articles Presenting
  Editor Andrea Pinkney. SCBWI Kite Tales.
  2000-2007. SCBWI Tri-Regions of Southern
  California. 21 January 2009 ltwww.scbwisocal.org/ht
  mls/pinkney.htmgt.
• Jesberger, Kara, Renee Schecter, and Lori
  Siebenaller. Andrea Davis Pinkney. VG Voices
  from the Gaps. 5 May 2001. Regents of the
  University of Minnesota. 21 January 2009
  lthttp//voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/pinkney
  _andrea_davis.htmlgt.

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• Johnson, Virginia. In Step with Andrea Davis
  Pinkney. Kidspoint. The Central Rappahannock
  Regional Library. 21 January 2009
  lthttp//www.kidspoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id8
  23column_typeauthorgt.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. American Rhetoric Top
  100 Speeches. 13 February 2009
  lthttp//www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihave
  adream.htmgt.