Eric Velasquez

Eric Velasquez has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children, and has authored some picture books as well. Among the awards he has received for his work are the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award, an NAACP Image Award, and the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. When not illustrating book projects, Velasquez teaches book illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He lives in Hartsdale, New York. You can visit him online at ericvelasquez.com.

Website: ericvelasquez.com

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She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
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She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
A timely, inspiring picture book biography of the dynamic twentieth-century educator, activist, and politician Shirley Chisholm.

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As Fast As Words Could Fly
By Pamela M. Tuck, Eric Velasquez
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As Fast As Words Could Fly
By Pamela M. Tuck, Eric Velasquez
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- Teacher’s Guide
The story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a "whites-only" high school.

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