Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Reprint. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Signed on t-p.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Unpaginated (40 pages) Some illustrations with color. From Wikipedia: "Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. Suffering from a speech impediment, he cultivated the habit of writing poetry and short stories and acquired an early love of reading. Myers received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1994 for his contribution in writing for teens. For his lifetime contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. Myers was the Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a two-year position created to raise national awareness of the importance of lifelong literacy and education.