Gunner, Football Hero (Holiday House, 2010).Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams (Paula Wiseman Books, 2018.Germs: Sickness, Bad Breath, and Pizza (Henry Holt, 2017).Before She Was Harriet (Holiday House, 2017).Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong (Holiday House, 2016).Freedom's School (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015).My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey ( Paula Wiseman Books, 2015).

Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-And-White Jazz Band in History (Holiday House, 2014).Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret ( Jump at the Sun, 2013).Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster, 2012).Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George (Schwartz & Wade, 2011).Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart ( Collins Publishers, 2008).Young Pele: Soccer's First Star ( Schwartz & Wade, 2007).Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist ( Atheneum, 2003).Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building (Schwarz and Wade, 2004).Under the Quilt of Night (Aladdin, 2002).This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration (Nancy Paulson, 2013).Peepers, text by Eve Bunting (HMH, 2001).He and his wife, author Lesa Cline-Ransome, and family live in Rhinebeck, New York. He is an associate professor in the School of Art at Syracuse University. Commissioned murals include three for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

James Ransome has illustrated over 60 picture books, and has illustrated greetings cards and magazines. He obtained a Batchelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where his mentor was the illustrator Jerry Pinkney. During high school years the family moved to Bergenfield, New Jersey he attended film making and photography classes, which influenced his style.

Ransome (born Septem) is an American illustrator of children's books.

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