![]() ![]() Although the setting is never explicitly described as L.A. As a Caldecott medal winner, "Smoky Night" is the highest profile picturebook centered on an incident related to police brutality and the profiling of Black citizens-the Los Angeles riots, which followed the beating of Rodney King and the infamous not-guilty verdict of 1992. The year 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Eve Bunting's "Smoky Night" (Harcourt, 1994 illustrated by David Diaz). ![]()
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