{"product_id":"it-jes-happened-when-bill-traylor-started-to-draw-paperback","title":"It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Tate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eR. Gregory Christie\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Voices Award Honor, Lee \u0026amp; Low Books\u003cbr\u003e Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Honor, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation\u003cbr\u003e Editor's Choice, Booklist\u003cbr\u003e Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education\u003cbr\u003e 100 Magnificent Children's Books, Fuse #8 Production, SLJ\u003cbr\u003e Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)\u003cbr\u003e Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 1935 Bill was eighty-one and all alone on his farm. So he packed his bag and moved to Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. Lonely and poor, he wandered the busy downtown streets. But deep within himself Bill had a reservoir of memories of working and living on the land, and soon those memories blossomed into pictures. Bill began to draw people, places, and animals from his earlier life, as well as scenes of the city around him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday Bill Traylor is considered to be one of the most important self-taught American folk artists. Winner of Lee \u0026amp; Low's New Voices Award Honor, \u003ci\u003eIt Jes' Happened\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively tribute to this man who has enriched the world with more than twelve hundred warm, energetic, and often humorous pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Tate\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author, and the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children. He is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. Tate and his family live in Austin, Texas. You can visit him online at dontate.com and follow him on social media at @devas_T.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eR. Gregory Christie\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor and six Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honors, and his books have been recognized by The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books list three times. He currently paints in the evenings while traveling around the country doing school visits. You can visit him online at gas-art.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 10.3 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lower Grades, K-3\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4.8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770384384288,"sku":"9781643790558","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/511815c627b33a2de17fc7882d5a3927.webp?v=1780370626","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/it-jes-happened-when-bill-traylor-started-to-draw-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}