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"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." -Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance-paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators.

2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for ChildrenĬontributed by Anne Clifton-Katz | Children's Room Librarian.

2017 Children’s Literature Legacy Award.

2020 ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature.

She wants children to see themselves in literature. Helping children process grief through stories is a significant part of her writing. She wrote to make the invisibility of her experiences- visible. Her familiarity with being unseen in the books she read inspired her to write and create books and poetry for children like her. Libraries and books were a large part of her childhood, but of all the books that she read, she rarely, if ever, saw characters who she could relate to, or who looked like her or had experiences like her.

As a child, she was in and out of foster homes and often separated from her sister.

Grimes has said that reading and writing helped her get through her darkest times as a child. She began writing at the age of 6 and continues to do so today. Having written or contributed to more than 75 books, she has traveled the world sharing her many talents.īorn and raised in New York City, Nikki Grimes has earned several accolades for her writing and poetry. She is also a photographer, singer, dancer, and jewelry maker. Grimes is an author, an artist and musician.