# Radiant Child

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- Book: [Radiant Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/javaka-steptoe/radiant-child) ([Radiant Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/javaka-steptoe/radiant-child.md))
- Authors: [Javaka Steptoe](https://www.bookquiver.com/javaka-steptoe)
- Publisher: little_brown_young_readers_us
- ISBN: 978-03-1621-388-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-10-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king. 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. However, before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games, in the words that we speak and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own style introduces young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean - and definitely not inside the lines - to be beautiful.