Deeply influenced by her religious beliefs and fired up by the social justice causes of her day, artist, designer, and educator Corita Kent was a nun like no other!A 2022 Bologna Ragazzi Award Amazing Bookshelf SelectionA 2022 ALA Notable Children's BookA Booklist Editors Choice: Books for Youth, 2021A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2021AMarginalian(formerlyBrain Pickings) Loveliest Children's Book of 2021A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2022, of Outstanding MeritNominated for a 2021 Ezra Jack Keats Writing AwardFeatured in the 2021 Society of Illustrators Original Art ExhibitionA 2021 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Children's NonfictionABooklistTop Ten Arts Books for Youth of 2021A CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center) Choices Best Childrens Book, 2022Stars fromBooklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly,and more!Corita Kent (19181986) lived a remarkable life as an artist, educator, nun, and activist. Unapologetically holding true to herself and her beliefs, Corita spread a powerful message of love, hope, and justice with her work, as it evolved from figurative and religious art, to serigraphs incorporating the sacred and the ordinary, to a sparser, more introspective style.This timely story will draw readers into the life of a singular woman whose work and commitment invite us all to seek joy in the everyday, to observe the world with open eyes, and to question and see beyond the existing frameworks of society.Thoughtfully written by Matthew Burgess and vibrantly illustrated by Kara Kramer, this beautiful biography, made in close collaboration with the Corita Art Center, includes reproductions of Coritas works, a chronology, and author and illustrator notes.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is aimed at children at US 1st grade-12th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 6 years.

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published in 2021 by Enchanted Lion Books .

Matthew Burgess is an Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College. He is the author ofSlippers for Elsewhere, a poetry collection, and Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, his first children's book with Enchanted Lion Books. Matthew edited an anthology of writing and visual art titled, Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space, and currently he is editing a collection of imaginative writing prompts for a forthcoming book with Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Matthew has been teaching poetry in NYC elementary schools since 2001.