JAN SPIVEY GILCHRIST is the award winning illustrator of 74 children's books. She is the author of 5 picture books, and she coauthored 1 novel. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the 2012 Coretta Scott King Honor Award, it is also a Junior Library Guild Best Book, NAACP Nominee, a CCBC Best Book for 2012 and Georgia State Nominee. Gilchrist also won the 1990 Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and the 1992 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award for illustrations in Night on Neighborhood