Javaka Steptoe
40 Total Resources 1 Lifetime Achievement Awards 33 Total Book Awards 12 Books
Our Original Resources 7
Meet-the-Author Recording with Javaka Steptoe about In Daddy's Arms I am Tall
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Javaka Steptoe about Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Javaka Steptoe and John Steptoe about All the Colors of the Race
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Javaka Steptoe and John Steptoe about Mother Crocodile
Created by TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Javaka Steptoe and John Steptoe about Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Created by TeachingBooks
Audio Name Pronunciation with Javaka Steptoe
Created by TeachingBooks
About the Author 2
Author Interviews 18
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Interview with Javaka Steptoe
Created by KidLit TV
![Lee & Low](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1272924117327544320/WzjpKhjm_bigger.jpg)
Interview with Javaka Steptoe
Created by Lee & Low
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Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Little Brown School & Library
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2017 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech given by Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Horn Book
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2017 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech given by Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Association for Library Service to Children - ALSC
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2017 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech given by Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Association for Library Service to Children - ALSC
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Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Library of Congress
![Lee & Low](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1272924117327544320/WzjpKhjm_bigger.jpg)
Guest post by Javaka Steptoe about In Daddy's Arms I am Tall
Created by Lee & Low
![Horn Book](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/902297011562717184/DrE9dtxO_bigger.jpg)
CSK Illustrator Award Acceptance Speech, 2017, given by Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Horn Book
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Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow
Created by NPR
Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by WNYC New York Public Radio
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Guest post by Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by The Brown Bookshelf
![The Yarn Podcast](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/696053292510662657/GLG9Fq1B_bigger.jpg)
Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by The Yarn Podcast
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Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Publishers Weekly
Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by School Library Journal
Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Radiant Child
Created by Black Children's Books and Authors
Interview with Javaka Steptoe about Rain Play
Created by Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Lifetime Achievement Awards 1
Books by Javaka Steptoe 12
![Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0316213888.jpg)
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
39 Resources13 Awards
![A Pocketful of Poems](/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0395938686.jpg)
![Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0998799947.jpg)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
by Tony Medina, Javaka Steptoe, R. Gregory Christie, and Ekua Holmes
21 Resources4 Awards
![Amiri & Odette: A Love Story](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0590680412.jpg)
![Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0618852794.jpg)
Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
by Gary Golio and Javaka Steptoe
16 Resources2 Awards
![All of the Above](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/031611524X.jpg)
![Hot Day on Abbott Avenue](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0395985277.jpg)
![Rain Play](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0805067957.jpg)
![Do You Know What I'll Do?](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/006027879X.jpg)
![What's Special about Me, Mama?](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0786852747.jpg)
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