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Hey you! an empowering celebration of growing up Black

Addresses--honestly, yet hopefully--the experiences Black children face growing up with systemic racism, as well as providing hope for the future and delivering a message of empowerment to a new generation of dreamers.

Main Author: Adeola, Dapo (Author)
Other Authors: Johnson, Alyissa (Illustrator), Miller, Sharee (Illustrator) (Illustrator), Orlando, Jade (Illustrator), Ewen, Diane (Illustrator) (Illustrator), Brown, Reggie (Illustrator), Iwu, Onyinye (Illustrator), Timothy, Chanté (Illustrator), Jose, Gladys (Illustrator), Glendining, Bex (Illustrator), Avelino, Joelle (Illustrator), Mustapha, Dunni (Illustrator), Miles, Nicole (Illustrator), Kristensen, Charlot (Illustrator), Nebechi, Kingsley (Illustrator), Sucre, Camilla (Illustrator), Brooks, Derick (Illustrator), Anderson, Jobe (Illustrator), Sunu, Selom (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022.
Edition: First American edition.
Subjects:
Children, Black > Juvenile fiction.
Self-esteem > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Summary: Addresses--honestly, yet hopefully--the experiences Black children face growing up with systemic racism, as well as providing hope for the future and delivering a message of empowerment to a new generation of dreamers.
Item Description: "An empowering celebration of growing up Black"--Cover.
"First published in Great Britian by Penguin Random House UK in 2021" --Verso.
Physical Description: 48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
ISBN: 9780593529423
0593529421
Author Notes: Dapo Adeola is an award-winning illustrator and designer who creates characters and images that challenge expectations around race and gender in a fun and upbeat way. He is the co-creator and illustrator of bestselling picture book Look Up! --winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the UK's number-one debut picture book of 2019. London born and bred but of Nigerian heritage, when he's not busy cooking up new characters and adventures you can find Dapo running illustration and character design workshops with children or organizing events to help highlight the possibilities of a career in illustration to underrepresented members of the Black diaspora.

Illustrators: Dapo Adeola, Alyissa Johnson, Sharee Miller, Jade Orlando, Diane Ewen, Reggie Brown, Onyinye Iwu, Chanté Timothy, Gladys Jose, Bex Glendining, Joelle Avelino, Dunni Mustapha, Nicole Miles, Charlot Kristensen, Kingsley Nebechi, Camilla Sucre, Derick Brooks, Jobe Anderson, and Selom Sunu

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