Jean-michel Basquiat And His Unique, Collage-style Paintings Rocked To Fame In The 1980s As A Cultural Phenomenon Unlike Anything The Art Work Had Ever Seen. But Before That, He Was A Little Boy Who Saw Art Everywhere: In Poetry Books And Museums, In Games And In The Words That We Speak, And In The Pulsing Energy Of New York City. Now, Award-winning Illustrator Javaka Steptoe's Vivid Text And Bold Artwork Echoing Basquiat's Own Introduce Young Readers To The Powerful Message And Art Doesn't Always Have To Be Neat Or Clean--and Definitely Not Inside The Lines--to Be Beautiful. Javaka Steptoe. Includes Bibliographical References (page 2). Accelerated Reader 4.7 Reading Counts! 9.4