Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2089
Points per Word
0.000239
Page Count
24
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This biography of Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of children's books, discusses his childhood in Philadelphia and his career in which he has illustrated more than one hundred books and won five Coretta Scott King Awards and five Caldecott Honor Books.