The BIG Picture LIVE with Vashti Harrison, host Andrea Davis Pinkney kidlit tv

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Andrea Davis Pinkney chats and draws LIVE with Caldecott Medal winning illustrator Vashti Harrison.
Vashti will show you how to draw characters from basic shapes!
• Share your drawings with Andrea and Vashti using #TheBIGPictureLIVE •
Be sure to post your questions for Andrea and Vashti
in the comments section below!
Learn how to draw using shapes,
then, share your drawings with us using #TheBIGPictureLIVE

ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of the Caldecott Medal! A Coretta Scott King Award Author and Illustrator Honor book, a National Book Award finalist, and a New York Times bestseller! This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of joyful acceptance, from an award-winning creator.

Once there was a girl.
She had a big laugh
and a big heart
and very big dreams.​
And it was good.
Until it wasn’t.

The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning and bestselling creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.

ABOUT Vashti Harrison
Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of Big, which was awarded the 2024 Caldecott Medal, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor, in addition to being a National Book Award finalist. Vashti is also the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe (for which she received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor), Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty’s I Love You Like Yellow, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others. A two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, Vashti lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Vashti received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Film and Video from Calarts. Her Experimental films and videos focus on her Caribbean Heritage and folklore. They have shown around the world at film festivals and venues including the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival.

ABOUT Andrea Davis Pinkney
Andrea is a Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of picture books, novels, historical fiction, and nonfiction.
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction. Her books have been awarded multiple Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Jane Addams Children’s Literature Honor citations, four NAACP Image Award nominations, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor medal, as well as several Parenting Publication Gold Medals, and American Library Association Notable Book citations!

Share your drawings with Andrea and Vashti using #TheBIGPictureLIVE

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