Black Cat

Christopher Myers may have inherited some of his talent from his father, Walter Dean Myers, or his grandfather, who “was a storyteller,” says Myers. “His thick callused hands told stories. My father tells stories. I tell stories.” “Illustrating children’s books is a trip. So many people are starving for images. (There is an) image famine in African America. I think we are learning how important images are, how much they do.” Myers’s book, Harlem, which he collaborated on with his father, was named a Caldecott Honor Book. In reviewing it, Booklist observed that “the artist sees a concrete city composed of ‘colors loud enough to be heard.'” This talented artist, who works in collages, photos, and woodcuts, graduated from Brown University and completed the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information about Christopher Myers, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks