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Eric Darnell Pritchard is an educator, scholar, writer and the endowed Brown Chair in English Literacy and Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. They are also the founding Director of the Community Literacies Collaboratory, which supports literacy partnerships for children, adolescents, and adults in Arkansas and nationally. A lifelong lover of picture books and biographies, Clothes to Make You Smile is Eric’s debut book for young readers. Shannon Wright is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist based out of Richmond, Virginia. Shannon was awarded a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes, written by Traci N. Todd. She tells personal and original stories invoking nostalgia rooted from her own childhood and life around her.
Cheerful mixed-media illustrations layer angular painted paper collage with photographic elements like buttons and thread. The result is a fabulously tactile visual experience that pops off the page. A playful and poignant look at a designer who dressed the world in joy. * Kirkus Reviews * This buoyant picture book biography decidedly looks good, with Wright's striking mixed media and Photoshop illustrations, collaged with buttons and thread in vibrant colors-a perfect fit with a story about a love of materiality and fashion. The focus on laughter through difficulties will remind even the non-fashion-focused kiddos that creating doesn't have to be painful. * The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books * Featuring a combination of fabric scraps, buttons, colored pencils, and miscellaneous ephemera, Wright's mixed-media artwork captures the essence of Kelly's dopamine-sparking aesthetic. * Publishers Weekly * In its introduction of a fashion icon, this debut also offers representation of a gay Black man, uncommon in picture books...The illustrations are bright and vibrant, using button, yarn, acrylic paint, and colored pencil, among other materials in a way that is appropriately unique, setting this book apart. * Booklist *
