Kadir Nelson, widely acclaimed illustrator of many books for children, visited Mrs. Nelson's this week to sign We Are the Ship and Change Has Come, by The Words of Barack Obama. His past works include Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Kadir lives with his family in San Diego, California.
