![]() “They sat beside me in Maple Grove School. She would read stories after lunch and make characters spring up around Johnson: “Book people came to life,” Johnson shared in one interview. “In elementary school, Angela Johnson had a special teacher who could create worlds with words. To read an interview with Angela Johnson: She collaborated with illustrator Dav Pilkey on the 1993 picture book Julius.-From Though she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, she actually spent most of her youth in Windham, Ohio. Many of her works, including her lyrical poetry collection The Other Side: Shorter Poems, paint a vivid picture of the history and character of her home state of Alabama. ![]() While working as a nanny for children’s writer Cynthia Rylant, the young Johnson was mentored by the established author. Her first picture book, Tell Me a Story, Mama (published in 1991) won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. ![]() ![]() The author of children’s pictures books, young adult novels, and poetry focusing on African-American families, Johnson is particularly well known for her Coretta Scott King Award-winning works The First Part Last (2004) Heaven (1999) and Toning the Sweep (1994). ![]()
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