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Joy takes root

"In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature."--Amazon.com.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallace, Gwendolyn (Author)
Other Authors:	Corrin, Ashleigh (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2023.
Subjects:	Grandparent and child > Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Gardens > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	"In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature."--Amazon.com.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
ISBN:	9780593406786 0593406788
Author Notes:	Gwendolyn Wallace graduated from Yale in 2021 and currently works for the International African American Museum. A budding herbalist, her debut children's book Joy Takes Root was inspired by her own experiences gardening with her grandmother in South Carolina. Her next picture book, The Light She Feels Inside (Sourcebooks) will publish Fall 2023. Ashleigh Corrin is a graphic designer by day, illustrator by night. Her talent comes from her late grandmother, who inspired Ashleigh to serve people's unique stories with creativity. With her illustrations, she hopes to contribute to good laughs, nostalgia, vulnerability, transparency, and seeing the light in ourselves and others.