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Wanda

Eight-year-old Wanda is unhappy due to the endless mocking of her hair by the boys at school, but when Makhulu (grandmother) shares her grooming secrets and stories of beautiful women with locks just like Wanda, she realizes her hair is a crown and is something to be proud of.

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Main Authors: Nontshokweni, Sihle (Author), Tlali, Mathabo (Author)
Other Authors: Thorne, Chantelle (Illustrator), Thorne, Burgen (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA : Crocodile Books, 2020.
Edition:First American edition.
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Hair > Juvenile fiction.
Self-confidence > Juvenile fiction.
Blacks > South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:Eight-year-old Wanda is unhappy due to the endless mocking of her hair by the boys at school, but when Makhulu (grandmother) shares her grooming secrets and stories of beautiful women with locks just like Wanda, she realizes her hair is a crown and is something to be proud of.
Item Description:Original published in South Africa by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2019.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Audience:Ages 3-8.
Grades K-1.
ISBN:9781623718640
1623718643
Author Notes:Sihle Nontshokweni is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven, South Africa. Her research is focused on the successes and failures of school desegregation in post-apartheid South Africa. Prior to that, she lived in China, completing a master's at Peking University, where she studied the aspirations of African migrant entrepreneurs living in Guangzhou, south of China. She has a deep interest in how racialized contexts affect identity and aspirations. Sihle is an avid reader and is passionate about creating positive content through YouTube and her personal blog sihlesapplecrunch.com. She is a lover of adventure and fitness, having completed a marathon and the popular Cape Cycle Tour.

Mathabo Tlali was born and bred in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and has the yearning to understand and engage the thoughts and realities of others through various artistic and digital platforms. A thespian at heart, she is a practitioner who currently engages the form of contemporary performance in order to translate her ideas; writing, directing, physical performance and producing are her key areas of interest. She is currently completing her second undergraduate major in sociology at Rhodes University, after completing her primary major, drama and performance studies. She seeks to explore intersectional ways of connectivity between the past, present and future, more so pertaining to identity politics within the performance and academic space.

Chantelle and Burgen Thorne are internationally published illustrators with over 20 years' experience in educational publishing. Their focus is picture books for children with several more titles being released internationally this year, because the magic of children's books is that they're not just for kids. Avid bookworms themselves, they take great delight in the visual storytelling of picture books, art and text working together, every word and every image adding to the reader's experience. Both have fond memories of being read to as children and this inspires them to make their illustrations as engaging, honest and relevant to young readers as they possibly can--what a wonderful way to spend one's working day!

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