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Nana Akua goes to school

Zura is worried about how her classmates will react to her Ghanaian Nana's tattoos on Grandparents Day, but Nana finds a way to show how special and meaningful they are.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walker, Tricia Elam (Author)
Other Authors:	Harrison, April (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. Schools > Juvenile fiction. Tattooing > Juvenile fiction. Ghanaian Americans > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Zura is worried about how her classmates will react to her Ghanaian Nana's tattoos on Grandparents Day, but Nana finds a way to show how special and meaningful they are.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Audience:	Ages 4-8. Grades K-1.
ISBN:	9780525581130 0525581138 9780525581147 0525581146
Author Notes:	Tricia Elam Walker is the author of the novel Breathing Room, among other publications. She is an award-winning fiction and nonfiction writer, cultural and fashion commentator, and blogger who has written for National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Essence magazine, HuffPost, and more. She practiced law for sixteen years prior to teaching writing in Washington, DC, and Boston. Tricia is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Howard University and is working on several projects, including children's books, plays, and a second novel. April Harrison, a renowned folk artist, is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning illustrator of Patricia C. McKissack's final picture book, What Is Given from the Heart , which received four starred reviews and which the New York Times Book Review called an "exquisite story of generosity." Her work appears in the public collections of Vanderbilt University, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, the Atlanta Housing Authority, and the Erskine University Museum and in many private collections. Learn more at aprilsonggallery.com.