Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song - Cynthia Grady

Wood, Michele: - Michele Wood is an illustrator, painter, and designer living in Indianapolis. Her first book, Going Back Home , was honored with an American Book Award. Wood's second book, I See the Rhythm , written by Toyomi Igus, received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. After illustrating Cynthia Grady's I Lay My Stitches Down , Wood was honored with the Ashley Bryan Award for Illustration and in 2016, she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for the book Chasing Freedom . Her most recent work, BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom , won a Newbery Honor. Wood's work continues to be exhibited in major art spaces across the country.