6/28/2023 0 Comments Trace by Pat Cummings![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps due to one of the biggest points she made that evening: FEAR STOPS WRITERS. The above quote is one of the first things Pat told us. Google Pat’s name and feast your eyes on books that she has illustrated, among them, Angel Baby, Harvey Moon books, Ananse and the Lizard and her latest, which she wrote and is available now in hardcover and on Kindle, paperback coming out in April, Trace, a story about “a strange apparition of a little, ragged boy leads on a search into the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum fire that took place on the original site, during the Civil War–era draft riots.” ![]() Pat is the creator of over thirty books for children, and among other awards, is the recipient of the Horn Book-Boston Globe Award, the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction, and the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators, in 1983 for the illustrations in My Mama Needs Me. This year during this time, the New Mexico chapter of Society of the Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, SCBWI, enjoyed magical moments of its own with a visit from the incomparable author/illustrator and educator Pat Cummings. Magical airships fill the skies-600 or so each year-and for almost two weeks the entire city has its head in the clouds. In Albuquerque, New Mexico that means Balloon Fiesta time. 2 019 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta ![]()
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