Brian Pinkney was awarded a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor for illustration for THE FAITHFUL FRIEND by Robert D. San Souci, which was also named an ALA Notable Book. Although Brian Pinkney read comics and delivered papers when he was growing up, he never had an encounter with a mysterious sparrow...or did he? Brian lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Andrea, and their daughter, Chloe.

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