Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

By Javaka Steptoe

Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City.

Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

0.6" x 10.8" x 9.3" / 1.05 lbs

40 pages