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Happy 80th(?), George Ford! (Illustrator & 1973 Coretta Scott King Medalist)
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leno...@yahoo.com
Aug 3, 2016, 7:15:03 PM8/3/16
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He lives in Brooklyn.
He won the award for "Ray Charles" by Sharon Bell Mathis.
What's odd is that, according to Radaris and Familysearch.org, he should be turning 70 today. However, Worldcat, the Oxford Reference, and "The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009" say he was born in 1936. BUT..."Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults" says he was born in 1926 - and the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series says his work was exhibited in Atlanta, Georgia in 1951.
One of Ford's better-known books is "The Story of Ruby Bridges" by Robert Coles (1995).
About the Coretta Scott King Book Award:
http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/about
The Coretta Scott King Book Award was founded in 1969 by Mabel McKissick and Glyndon Greer at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The first award was given to Lillie Patterson in 1970 for her biography, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (Garrard).
In 1979, the Coretta Scott King Task Force was formed and became part of ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) the next year. In 1982, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards became an officially recognized ALA award. The Coretta Scott King Task Force joined ALA’s Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) in 2003 and became the Coretta Scott Book Awards Committee.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards have grown to include several categories. In 1974, George Ford became the first illustrator to receive the award for Ray Charles (Crowell). The John Steptoe Award for New Talent (originally the Genesis Award) was established in 1995 to recognize exceptional work from new African American authors and illustrators. The first Steptoe Award was given to Sharon Draper for Tears of a Tiger (Simon & Schuster). In 2010, the committee established the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement to be given alternately to an author or illustrator and a practitioner. The first Hamilton Award recipients were Walter Dean Myers (2010) and Henrietta M. Smith (2011).
Since 1972, the recipients of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards have been honored at a celebratory breakfast during the ALA Annual Conference. In 2009, ALA published the fourth edition of The Coretta Scott King Awards, a complete history of the awards edited by Henrietta M. Smith.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/555802.George_Ford
(book covers and reader reviews - a couple of credits may not be correct)
https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=George+Ford
(photo and covers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnz-GGFWVA
(1:45 video interview)
https://thebrownbookshelf.com/2010/02/07/bernette-ford/
(about his wife, author Bernette Ford (born in 1950)
Lenona.
He won the award for "Ray Charles" by Sharon Bell Mathis.
What's odd is that, according to Radaris and Familysearch.org, he should be turning 70 today. However, Worldcat, the Oxford Reference, and "The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009" say he was born in 1936. BUT..."Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults" says he was born in 1926 - and the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series says his work was exhibited in Atlanta, Georgia in 1951.
One of Ford's better-known books is "The Story of Ruby Bridges" by Robert Coles (1995).
About the Coretta Scott King Book Award:
http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/about
The Coretta Scott King Book Award was founded in 1969 by Mabel McKissick and Glyndon Greer at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The first award was given to Lillie Patterson in 1970 for her biography, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (Garrard).
In 1979, the Coretta Scott King Task Force was formed and became part of ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) the next year. In 1982, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards became an officially recognized ALA award. The Coretta Scott King Task Force joined ALA’s Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) in 2003 and became the Coretta Scott Book Awards Committee.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards have grown to include several categories. In 1974, George Ford became the first illustrator to receive the award for Ray Charles (Crowell). The John Steptoe Award for New Talent (originally the Genesis Award) was established in 1995 to recognize exceptional work from new African American authors and illustrators. The first Steptoe Award was given to Sharon Draper for Tears of a Tiger (Simon & Schuster). In 2010, the committee established the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement to be given alternately to an author or illustrator and a practitioner. The first Hamilton Award recipients were Walter Dean Myers (2010) and Henrietta M. Smith (2011).
Since 1972, the recipients of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards have been honored at a celebratory breakfast during the ALA Annual Conference. In 2009, ALA published the fourth edition of The Coretta Scott King Awards, a complete history of the awards edited by Henrietta M. Smith.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/555802.George_Ford
(book covers and reader reviews - a couple of credits may not be correct)
https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=George+Ford
(photo and covers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnz-GGFWVA
(1:45 video interview)
https://thebrownbookshelf.com/2010/02/07/bernette-ford/
(about his wife, author Bernette Ford (born in 1950)
Lenona.
leno...@yahoo.com
Aug 4, 2016, 1:00:33 PM8/4/16
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Correction - the book was published in 1973, but he won the Coretta Scott King Medal in 1974.
Also known as George Cephas Ford, Jr.
> What's odd is that, according to Radaris and Familysearch.org, he should be turning 70 today. However, Worldcat, the Oxford Reference, and "The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009" say he was born in 1936. BUT..."Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults" says he was born in 1926 - and the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series says his work was exhibited in Atlanta, Georgia in 1951.
>
I found the 1999 edition (the third) of "Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults":
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbkMIG3TylcC&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=%22little+boy+black%22+%22singing+turtle%22+george+ford&source=bl&ots=wsqbe3jWQ1&sig=i0whFryVqCDrdA-yXYkapsy-I8o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3taH5mqjOAhVBzoMKHSh3A_kQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22little%20boy%20black%22%20%22singing%20turtle%22%20george%20ford&f=false
This is where you can see his bibliography. He's illustrated books by Eloise Greenfield, Nikki Grimes, Nikki Giovanni, and Cheryl Willis Hudson.
It also claims he was born in 1936. The first edition was from 1987. The fourth edition (2007) is where it says he was born in 1926.
The "Something About the Author" entry is in volume 31, BTW - from 1983.
Lenona.
Also known as George Cephas Ford, Jr.
> What's odd is that, according to Radaris and Familysearch.org, he should be turning 70 today. However, Worldcat, the Oxford Reference, and "The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009" say he was born in 1936. BUT..."Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults" says he was born in 1926 - and the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series says his work was exhibited in Atlanta, Georgia in 1951.
>
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbkMIG3TylcC&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=%22little+boy+black%22+%22singing+turtle%22+george+ford&source=bl&ots=wsqbe3jWQ1&sig=i0whFryVqCDrdA-yXYkapsy-I8o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3taH5mqjOAhVBzoMKHSh3A_kQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22little%20boy%20black%22%20%22singing%20turtle%22%20george%20ford&f=false
This is where you can see his bibliography. He's illustrated books by Eloise Greenfield, Nikki Grimes, Nikki Giovanni, and Cheryl Willis Hudson.
It also claims he was born in 1936. The first edition was from 1987. The fourth edition (2007) is where it says he was born in 1926.
The "Something About the Author" entry is in volume 31, BTW - from 1983.
Lenona.
leno...@yahoo.com
Nov 2, 2019, 1:32:42 PM11/2/19
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"An Interview with George and Bernette Ford"
By Roger Sutton (May 2019).
https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=an-interview-with-george-and-bernette-ford
"George and Bernette Ford are two icons of African American children’s literature. George is the winner of the first Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, in 1974, for Ray Charles (written by Sharon Bell Mathis) and a past president of the Council on Interracial Books for Children. He and Bernette were also active members of the organization Black Creators for Children. Bernette’s long career in children’s publishing began at Random House in the 1970s. At Grosset & Dunlap, she became the first African American vice president of a major children’s publishing house. She is the founder of the Cartwheel Books imprint at Scholastic, where she also served as a VP, and in 2003 founded Color-Bridge Books, a book packager specializing in multicultural books for children. In February 2018, Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton spoke with the Fords by phone about the fiftieth anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards and the history and future of Black children’s books."
Lenona.
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