Summer is here

Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her novel All the Blues in the Sky won the Newbery Medal, and Piecing Me Together received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award . Her books include the Ryan Hart series, Some Places More Than Others , This Side of Home , What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X , cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, Watch Us Rise , cowritten with Ellen Hagan, and Love Is a Revolution , as well as acclaimed picture books: Summer Is Here , Maya's Song , The 1619 Project: Born on the Water , written with Nikole Hannah-Jones, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen , and Harlem's Little Blackbird , which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.

www.reneewatson.net
@reneewauthor

Bea Jackson creates to encapsulate a moment in time, challenging herself to combine her boundless imagination with experiences and emotion and capture the result on paper. A lifelong collector of both picture books and comics, she admires art's ability to speak perfectly on its own and translate ideas without words. As a digital painter using textures that mimic pastels, oil paints, and watercolor, she pursues the rainbow in her palette, seeking to add a touch of childhood magic to her work. From one of her earliest illustrated picture books, Hair Like Mine , to the New York Times bestselling Parker Looks Up , Bea explores themes that unify rather than divide.

www.beagifted.com
@BeaGifted (Instagram)