Jan Spivey Gilchrist

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Jan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator-author of seventy-four children's books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award, a Junior Library Guild Best Book, an NAACP Image Award nominee, a CCBC Best Book, and a Georgia State Children's Book Award nominee. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and a Coretta Scott King Honor for her illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, all written by Eloise Greenfield. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. She lives near Chicago, Il ...more

Average rating: 4.01 · 2,006 ratings · 584 reviews · 58 distinct works
One Last Word: Wisdom from ...

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4.30 avg rating — 1,665 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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The Great Migration: Journe...

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4.03 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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My America

3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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A Voice as Soft as a Honey ...

4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings2 editions
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You See Me, God: Inspired b...

4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings2 editions
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Shout for Joy!: Psalm 100 I...

4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Indigo and Moonlight Gold

4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Madelia

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Obama: The Day the World Da...

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010
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