Derrick Barnes, author portrait
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Derrick Barnes

Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller, I Am Every Good Thing, which also won a Charlotte Huck Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. Derrick is also the creator of the New York Times bestselling companion picture books, The King of Kindergarten and The Queen of Kindergarten. He is a native of Kansas City, MO, but currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his enchanting wife, Dr. Tinka Barnes, and their four sons, the Mighty Barnes Brothers.
The Queen of Kindergarten
I Am Every Good Thing
The King of Kindergarten

Sat Sep 27 | 12:30 PM
Winston Square Park Kid's Stage
310 Marshall St N
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
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Sat Oct 04 | 10:00 AM
First Baptist Church of Decatur
308 Clairemont Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
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Sat Oct 11 | 10:00 AM
Central Library | Kirk Hall
14 West 10th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
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Sat Nov 15 | 10:30 AM
Columbus Metropolitan Library: Hilliard Branch
4500 Hickory Chase Way
Hillard, OH 43026
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Books

The Queen of Kindergarten
I Am Every Good Thing
The King of Kindergarten

Events

Sat Sep 27 | 12:30 PM
Winston Square Park Kid's Stage
310 Marshall St N
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Google Map

Sat Oct 04 | 10:00 AM
First Baptist Church of Decatur
308 Clairemont Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
Google Map

Sat Oct 11 | 10:00 AM
Central Library | Kirk Hall
14 West 10th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
Google Map

Sat Nov 15 | 10:30 AM
Columbus Metropolitan Library: Hilliard Branch
4500 Hickory Chase Way
Hillard, OH 43026
Google Map

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