Cartoonist and children's book author Jerry Craft published the Newbery award-winning graphic novel New Kid in 2019. New Kid also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and the Kirkus Prize.

Jerry Craft credits his two sons, both in college, with helping him to write a better graphic novel. He had shown his boys the early draft of a tense scene in “New Kid.” But when he saw their ...

Jordan Banks, the protagonist of New Kid, is a seventh grade student who loves to draw and hopes to one day become a cartoonist. But the graphic ... author Jerry Craft tells NPR's A Martinez ...

“As a kid, I did not like to read, but I always liked to draw,” said Jerry Craft ... to children’s literature for his graphic novel “New Kid,” along with the Kirkus Prize and Coretta ...

"New Kid" by Jerry Craft and “The Undefeated,” illustrated ... Craft is best known for the graphic novel New Kid, which received a Newbery Medal, an award given each year for distinguished ...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — Albany Middle School students are in a for a treat this week. Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Jerry Craft is coming to visit the students for Family ...

Kansas St., will hold a virtual meeting with author Jerry Craft at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6. Craft is the author-illustrator of No. 1 New York Times best-selling graphic novels New Kid, and its ...

A middle grade story, Kid Flash: Going Rogue by Steve Foxe and Jerry ... the other novels following throughout the rest of the year. DC's Young Adult (13+) lineup will feature new graphic novels ...