Picture Gallery








	In 2001, poets gathered at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Baltimore. From left to right, Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul B. Janezcko, yours truly, Drew Ward, and Ralph Fletcher.		Hanging out in Seattle with poets Kenn Nesbitt (left) and Jack Prelutsky (right).

			Get ready to add this word to your dictionary: Grimesafication. When I visited Charles W. Eliot School in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007, I was thrilled to receive this T-shirt from the school. And what fun to see each of the students in the auditorium wearing one as well. I appreciate the effort this school made to read and discuss my books before I arrived. It made the visit worthwhile for students, teachers, and me.





	Floyd Cooper and Nikki Grimes at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago, 1995		Illustrator E.B. Lewis and me at the ALA annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. Each of us accepted Coretta Scott King Awards at this event.



	How cool is this? I spoke at IRA for Scholastic and so did Muhammed Ali. I received a standing ovation, and looked over to find Mr. Ali on his feet, applauding, too.		Alexandria LaFaye, Francesca Rusackas, and me at a Southern California SCBWI Conference. We had fun that day, didn't we, ladies?





	With Arnold Adoff and Virginia Hamilton at the Virginia Hamilton Conference, Kent State University, April 2000		Here I am with author Evelyn Wexler, my 10th grade teacher! She was the good teacher in Jazmin's Notebook.





	Me with six of my illustrators at the Langston Hughes Literary Festival, at the Alex Haley Farm, Clinton, Tennessee, August 2002. (From left to right): Tom Feelings, George Ford, Melodye Rosales, me, E.B. Lewis, Ashley Bryan, and Javaka Steptoe		It was fun to meet Pat Cummings, illustrator of C is for City, at San Antonio IRA in 2005.

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