Neil Gamon says that he conceived of a story like The Jungle Book only with a ghosts instead of wild animals raising the orphan child. It takes a whole graveyard to raise a child.

A bedtime books for children with scratchboard illustrations in black, white, and gold. The artist developed a tehnique of photocopying the scratchboard onto acid free paper and then painting on the paper with gold watercolor.

A boarding school novel set in Australia.

Poetry collection celebrating individuality and Afro-American identity.

The Pura Belpre Award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth

Winner of he Pura Belpre Illustrator Award in 2004.