Derrick Barnes, author portrait
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Derrick Barnes

Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller, I Am Every Good Thing, which also won a Charlotte Huck Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. Derrick is also the creator of the New York Times bestselling companion picture books, The King of Kindergarten and The Queen of Kindergarten. He is a native of Kansas City, MO, but currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his enchanting wife, Dr. Tinka Barnes, and their four sons, the Mighty Barnes Brothers.
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
I Got You
The King of Kindergarten
Yo soy cada cosa buena
Santa's Gotta Go!
Like Lava In My Veins
The Queen of Kindergarten
I Am Every Good Thing

Sat Nov 15 | 10:30 AM
Columbus Metropolitan Library: Hilliard Branch
4500 Hickory Chase Way
Hillard, OH 43026
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Books

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
I Got You
The King of Kindergarten
Yo soy cada cosa buena
Santa's Gotta Go!
Like Lava In My Veins
The Queen of Kindergarten
I Am Every Good Thing

Events

Sat Nov 15 | 10:30 AM
Columbus Metropolitan Library: Hilliard Branch
4500 Hickory Chase Way
Hillard, OH 43026
Google Map

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