Don Tate

Don Tate is an the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children, including Carter Reads The Newspaper (Peachtree, 2019); No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and his Kingdom in Kansas (Knopf, 2018); Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Charlesbridge, 2016); The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, (Eerdmans, 2015); Hope's Gift (Penguin); and The Cart That Carried Martin, (Charlesbridge). He is the author of Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became The Strongest Man on Earth (Charlesbridge, 2017); Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton (Peachtree, 2015); and It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started To Draw (Lee & Low Books, 2012). Don is a two-time recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats Book Author Award, the winner of a 2016 Christopher Award, and a 2016 Texas Institute of Letters book awards recipient. His forthcoming book, William Still and his Freedom Stories: Father of the Underground Railroad will publish with Peachtree Publishing in November 2020.