Author & Illustrator

Kadir Nelson

Biography

Kadir Nelson is an acclaimed artist and the illustrator of several New York Times bestselling picture books, including his authorial debut We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, which won a Coretta Scott King Award and a Sibert Medal. Kadir has received three additional Coretta Scott King Awards and five Coretta Scott King honors. He has also received two Caldecott Honors, for Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, and has twice received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.

Black Heroes of the Wild West
The Undefeated
Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Blue Sky White Stars
Abe's Honest Words
If You Plant a Seed
Baby Bear
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Nelson Mandela
I Have a Dream
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson

Most Popular Kadir Nelson Books

    board • 32 Pages
    Please, Baby, Please
    Kadir Nelson
    picture • 32 Pages
    Dancing in the Wings
    Debbie Allen, Kadir Nelson
    picture • 32 Pages
    Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
    Deloris Jordan, Roslyn M. Jordan, Kadir Nelson
    picture • 40 Pages
    Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
    Kadir Nelson, Ellen Levine
    picture • 32 Pages
    I Have a Dream
    Kadir Nelson
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Undefeated
    Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson

Book Stats

6
Authored
24
Illustrated
13
Collaborators

All Kadir Nelson Books

chapter • 60 Pages
Black Heroes of the Wild West
Series
Graphic Nov.
Hardcover
$16.95$15.76
picture • 40 Pages
The Undefeated
5.5
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
chapter • 272 Pages
Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 40 Pages
Blue Sky White Stars
5.4
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
picture • 48 Pages
Abe's Honest Words
7.0
Paperback
$8.99$8.58
picture • 32 Pages
If You Plant a Seed
4.9
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
picture • 1 Pages
Baby Bear
Hardcover
$17.99$16.73
chapter • 112 Pages
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Physical book
$9.99$9.29
picture • 40 Pages
Nelson Mandela
4.0
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 32 Pages
I Have a Dream
6.1
Hardcover
$19.99$18.99
picture • 40 Pages
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 40 Pages
Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson
Hardcover
$18.99$17.66
picture • 36 Pages
All God's Critters
Hardcover
$19.99$18.99
picture • 96 Pages
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Hardcover
$20.99$19.94
board • 32 Pages
Please, Baby, Please
4.0
Board book
$8.99$8.58
picture • 32 Pages
Michael's Golden Rules
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
picture • 40 Pages
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
picture • 48 Pages
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
picture • 32 Pages
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
picture • 68 Pages
The Real Slam Dunk
Hardcover
$15.99$14.98
picture • 32 Pages
Just the Two of Us
Paperback
$6.99$6.74
picture • 40 Pages
Ellington Was Not a Street
Hardcover
$19.99$18.99
picture • 32 Pages
Dancing in the Wings
4.8
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 32 Pages
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
4.8
Paperback
$8.99$8.58