![]() ![]() “I noticed I could do something the other kids couldn’t. Daunted by what he couldn’t do, little Jerry leaned on his lines. His spelling was “atrocious.” And he instinctively hid how long it took him to comprehend anything in the classroom, a difficulty that often left him completely lost. His realization that his reading was ragged had come on gradually. It was a double life: to be liked, acceptable, and reliable and not look at myself only in terms of my learning disability.” I needed the accomplishment and being out front to mask this sense of inadequacy. I remember the pain and the exhaustion and the amount of energy I spent. I was well liked, dependable, and could make people notice and like me…. By first grade he’d already figured out two important things: he had a gift with lines when it came to creating art, but an awful lag when those same lines formed letters for language. Advocacy Back Toolkit for Parents, Educators and Studentsīefore he became a legendary artist and illustrator of children’s books, gentle Jerry Pinkney was a little boy with a lot to do. ![]() Toolkit for Parents, Educators and Students. ![]()
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