Author and illustrator of African-American children's books dies
Fred Crump Jr., author and illustrator of children's books for more than 15 years, died Oct. 29. He was 72.
Crump, whose final book, Three Kings and a Star, released last month from Urban Ministries Inc., devoted his career after 30 years as a public-school art teacher to retelling popular children's stories for an African-American audience. Some of Crump's more than 40 titles included Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, The Ebony Duckling, Mgambo & the Tigers and Favorite Bible Stories.