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    The Pinkneys Are A Picture Book Perfect, Author-Illustrator Couple

    Author Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrator Brian Pinkney have been together for 30 years and collaborated on nearly 20 books. "It's fun to work with the one you love," Andrea says.
    by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Aug 11, 2019 4 minutes
    When author Andrea Davis Pinkney decided to write a book about a sit in, her husband Brian Pinkney asked, "How am I going to illustrate this, Andrea? They're just sitting." She told him: "Well, honey ... I'm sure you'll think of something." And he did. The lunch counter in <em>Sit-In</em> "takes on a life of its own," she says: It's a roller coaster, it's a road, it's a character in the story.

    Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney are literally the couple that met at the copy machine. They attended business events, went out to lunch, and from there, "we started sharing about our lives," Brian says. He was an illustrator, she was a writer, and "We thought, wow, we could really do some amazing things together."

    The Pinkneys have now been together for 30 years, and in that time, they've collaborated on nearly 20 children books. Their latest is a series of documentary poems chronicling the final days of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life — written by Andrea and illustrated

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