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Once upon a Kwanzaa

"An engaging picture book celebrating the beautiful traditions of Kwanzaa, from the author of I Affirm Me: The ABCs of Inspiration for Black Kids"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Williams, Nyasha (Author), McCall, Sidney Rose (Author)
Other Authors:	Cloud, Sawyer (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Running Press Kids, 2025.
Subjects:	Kwanzaa > Juvenile nonfiction. African Americans > Social life and customs > Juvenile nonfiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	"An engaging picture book celebrating the beautiful traditions of Kwanzaa, from the author of I Affirm Me: The ABCs of Inspiration for Black Kids"--
Physical Description:	32 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Audience:	Ages 4-8.
ISBN:	9780762487356 0762487356
Author Notes:	Nyasha Williams grew up living intermittently between the United States and South Africa. As a kindergarten teacher, she was inspired to continue work as an author, creator, and activist after reading her first book to her class when one of her Black students told her that mermaids could not be Black. Williams kickstarted her first picture book, What's the Commotion in the Ocean, starring a Black mermaid who spreads a message of marine conservation. She is the author of four picture books with Running Press Kids, including the bestselling I Affirm Me , and is the author of RP Studio's Black Tarot , as well as a board book series with Harpercollins. Sidney Rose McCall is a Florida-raised folklorist and public historian who studies Black ecologies, southern cultures and foodways, and the many underground railroads both in the American South and beyond. After serving as a student-docent at the Hurston Museum in Historic Eatonville, the hometown of Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God , she now serves as an Academic Committee member for the ZORA! Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Although she is currently writing and researching in Virginia, Orlando remains her hometown where she enjoys spending time with her extended family and the many fur-babies in between. Sawyer Cloud is a freelance artist from Madagascar. Her passion for kids' literature pushed her to turn it into a living. Sawyer loves sunny days and music. She dreams of owning a small cottage and traveling the world. She still lives in her native country, Madagascar, with her family and her two pets, Arya the dog and Potter the cat.