

She worked as a producer and writer for Gullah Gullah Island, a Nickelodeon children's show and cohosted Cover to Cover, a cable TV talk show about children's books and the people who create them.

As one of the illustrators for Our Children Can Soar ( Bloomsbury, 2009) she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Children.

She won the Coretta Scott King Award in 1984 for the illustrations in My Mama Needs Me (written by Mildred Pitts Walter), and was a finalist for Just Us Women (written by Jeannette Caines) and C.L.O.U.D.S., which she wrote and illustrated. CareerĬummings is the creator of over 30 books for children, including titles that have won the Horn Book-Boston Globe Award and the Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. Cummings initially freelanced for editorial and advertising clients before focusing exclusively on children's books. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.She attended Pratt Institute in New York City. An entertaining exaggeration of a familiar situation'.-Kirkus Reviews. Mom' s not so easily fooled, but she does have a sense of humor. He tackes a truly monumental mess (succinctly described in verse), stuffing most of it under his rug. But just when Harvey thinks he' s finally done, he discovers that his idea of clean is not the same as his mother' s 'Harvey' s unwilling but Mom is firm: no more TV until he picks up!. What a disaster There won' t be any cartoons until his room is absolutely spotless.

Harvey Moon' s room is a mess Clothes are everywhere, sticky comic books are shoved under his desk, and there' s a cookie under his bed that' s so old it' s turned gray and fuzzy.
