# Radiant Child

**Author:** Javaka Steptoe
**Grade range:** Grades 2–5
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 44
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780316394321`
**ISBN-10:** `0316394327`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/radiant-child
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award! Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean—and definitely not inside the lines!—to be beautiful. A Spanish edition, El niño radiante, is also available for purchase.

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2017 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2017 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2017 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Caldecott Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2017 Caldecott Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

---

_Generated from primary-source citations indexed on ReadingList.school. For the full HTML view with reading-list cross-references, see https://readinglist.school/book/radiant-child._