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Cultural Roots Reads: A Meetup with Award-Winning Illustrator Theodore Taylor III

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Suggested Audience: All Ages

Theodore Taylor III is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia with his wife Sarah and son Theo. During the day he works as a front-end web developer while also maintaining a career as a children’s book illustrator in his free time. His work is inspired by his love of music, comics, animation, video games, street art and more. He is also a self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur

In 2014 he received the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Award for his work in When The Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Here and the Creation of Hip Hop. In 2015 the book also won the Texas Bluebonnet Award.

He is represented by HGLiterary.