{"product_id":"it-jes-happened-when-bill-traylor-started-to-draw-9781643790558","title":"It Jes' Happened","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest Books, Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e New Voices Award Honor, LEE \u0026amp; LOW BOOKS\u003cbr\u003e Ezra Jack Book Award Honor, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation\u003cbr\u003e 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library\u003cbr\u003e Editor's Choice, Booklist\u003cbr\u003e Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education\u003cbr\u003e 100 Magnificent Children's Books, Fuse #8 Production, SLJ\u003cbr\u003e Books All Young Georgians Should Read, Georgia Center for the Book\u003cbr\u003e Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)\u003cbr\u003e Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all day in the hot fields. When slavery ended, Bill's family stayed on the farm as sharecroppers. There Bill grew to manhood, raised his own family, and cared for the land and his animals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 1935 Bill was eighty-one and all alone on his farm. So he packed his bag and moved to Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. Lonely and poor, he wandered the busy downtown streets. But deep within himself Bill had a reservoir of memories of working and living on the land, and soon those memories blossomed into pictures. Bill began to draw people, places, and animals from his earlier life, as well as scenes of the city around him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday Bill Traylor is considered to be one of the most important self-taught American folk artists. Winner of Lee \u0026amp; Low's New Voices Award Honor, \u003cem\u003eIt Jes' Happened\u003c\/em\u003e is a lively tribute to this man who has enriched the world with more than twelve hundred warm, energetic, and often humorous pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tate, Don\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee \u0026amp; Low Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643790558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 8.50w x 0.20d","brand":"Don Tate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39823099330635,"sku":"9781643790558","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_30d78c06-ce8b-48d7-baa4-a499aaba4f71.jpg?v=1660051187","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/it-jes-happened-when-bill-traylor-started-to-draw-9781643790558","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}