It Jes' Happened

Best Books, Kirkus Reviews New Voices Award Honor, LEE & LOW BOOKS Ezra Jack Book Award Honor, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library Editor's Choice, Booklist Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education 100 Magnificent Children's Books, Fuse #8 Production, SLJ Books All Young Georgians Should Read, Georgia Center for the Book Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Original Art Show, Society of IllustratorsThe inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all day in the hot fields. When slavery ended, Bill's family stayed on the farm as sharecroppers. There Bill grew to manhood, raised his own family, and cared for the land and his animals. By 1