NELSON: I just really think about people in my family, people that I know who are, you know, the unsung heroes, the people throughout history who we don't necessarily know or who we may never know.
How did you decide what to put on this page? So this is a family of five formally dressed in old-fashioned clothing, staring straight out of the page at the reader. SHAPIRO: And then the next page, we have the line, the ones who survived America by any means necessary. NELSON: So by the time we get toward the middle and end of the book, those shadows have disappeared, and the brilliance and excellence of the subjects have completely emerged into the bright light. The lower half of his body is in dark shadow, and the upper half of his body looks like the sun is shining on it while his. So you'll see it begins with Jesse Owens literally jumping out of the darkness into the light. KADIR NELSON: I think the visual mantra that I used for this book was the - all of the figures emerging from the shadows. SHAPIRO: When I spoke with illustrator Kadir Nelson last year, the first image I asked about was of the Olympian Jesse Owens. KWAME ALEXANDER: (Reading) This is for the unforgettable, the swift and sweet ones who hurdled history and opened a world of possible, the ones who survived America by any means necessary and the ones who didn't. The book's words are by poet Kwame Alexander. Kadir Nelson illustrated "The Undefeated." His work often explores what it's like to be black in America today and throughout history. Today the American Library Association announced the top awards in children's books, and the big winner was "The Undefeated," with three honors, including the Caldecott Medal for best picture book.
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