Don Tate is a critically acclaimed illustrator of books for children, including “Carter Reads the Newspaper,” “No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas” and “Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions.” He is also the author of “Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton” and “It ‘Jes Happened: When Bill Taylor Started to Draw,” both of which are Ezra Jack Keats award winners. Tate is the winner of a 2016 Christopher Award and a 2016 Texas Institute of Letters Book Award, as well as a founding host of The Brown Bookshelf blog. His illustrations appear most recently in “Swish! The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters,” written by Deborah Hopkinson. His most recent book is “William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad” (Peachtree).
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