Derrick Barnes
Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller, I Am Every Good Thing, which also won a Charlotte Huck Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. Derrick is…
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The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten in this New York Times bestselling picture book--now in paperback!
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The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
Derrick Barnes
I Got You
Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Shamar Knight-Justice
The King of Kindergarten
Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Yo soy cada cosa buena
Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Gordon C. James
Santa's Gotta Go!
Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Courtney Lovett
Like Lava In My Veins
Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Shawn Martinbrough
Victory. Stand!
Tommie Smith
The Queen of Kindergarten
Derrick Barnes; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton