Jason Douglas Griffin

Jason Douglas Griffin is the author and illustrator of Be the Acorn and the illustrator of The Table and On Fridays by Winsome Bingham. He won a Caldecott Honor for his artwork in Ain’t Burned All the Bright, written by Jason Reynolds, and also illustrated Reynolds’s My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. He’s shown his art in major cities all over the world, including a commissioned mural for the children’s cancer wing at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, as well as a residency at the contemporary art museum in Amsterdam, Het HEM. He currently creates in Queens, New York.