The Booking Biz is excited to welcome another award-winning client to our family. Gordon C. James is the illustrator of picture book CROWN: AN ODE TO THE FRESH CUT, which received the Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Honor and Ezra Jack Keats Honor, among others.
Gordon began to focus his love of art when he attended high school at Suitland Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in Forestville, Maryland. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
He’s no stranger to accolades. In 1997, he got a job designing Hallmark cards, one of only two illustrators given the job after a national search.
His work has also been exhibited at the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina, and won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal.
Gordon’s work in CROWN was called “breathtaking” by Essence, and Houston Style Magazine said of the picture book, “I read this book three times, in quick succession, just so I could appreciate its pictures again and again.”
We look forward to representing Gordon as he inspires more young illustrators.
Learn more about him on his speaker page.