A NOTE FROM THE ILLUSTRATOR

Creating the art for this book was pure joy. I drew on my memories of hearing these stories, songs, and rhymes as a child—in my Sunday school class at church, on the school playground at recess, and everywhere in between. I got quiet in my studio and listened to the memories. When I touched paintbrush to paper, the images danced from my hand onto the page.

Brian Pinkney

Brooklyn, New York