black children’s books – Auction Finds

Taking another look at Turky Trott’s Christmas adventure

Cover of "Turky Trott and the Black Santa."

December 17, 2021

Taking another look at Turky Trott’s Christmas adventure

I hadn’t thought of the book about a little boy named Turky until I got a letter recently from a reader who fondly remembered reading it as a child. “Turky Trott and the Black Santa”…

January 28, 2013

sherry

Children’s book of Paul Laurence Dunbar poems

Posted in Books, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents

I’ve never been much of an admirer of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. I’ve always had a hard time reading and deciphering his dialect poems because they were so antithetical to the language – even…

February 10, 2010

sherry

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Illustrator Jerry Pinkney gets his due

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Jerry Pinkney is one of my most favorite illustrators of children’s books. The man is awesome. I’ve never come across any of his books at auctions, but I’ve purchased a few on my own. Last spring,…

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I collect art, but I’m not someone who has the means to pay $500,000 for a Charles White or $12 million for a Rembrandt. I’m one of the “rest of us” who want beautiful artwork in our homes but can’t afford to pay big bucks for it.

I found a novel way to build my collection – by buying art for very little money at mom-and-pop auction houses near where I live. I started out buying African American artists whose works spoke to me and were ignored by the mainstream art world. Then I discovered some other neglected artists who called out just as loud.

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