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Notes From Your Bookseller
Stunning illustrations and sweeping text combine to form a brilliant and uplifting story about identity and individuality.
A New York Times bestseller!
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!
Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
Recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children’s Literary Work
From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colorism, self-esteem, and learning that true beauty comes from within.
Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her f...
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!
Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
Recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children’s Literary Work
From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colorism, self-esteem, and learning that true beauty comes from within.
Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her f...
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An Interview With Lupita Nyong’o On Her Debut Picture Book, Sulwe, and the Seed of Self-Value
In this interview, Nyong’o shares more about the inspiration for her debut picture book and her hopes for a new generation of readers. Sulwe is so beautiful; the kind of book I want to clutch to my heart. In your author’s note, you talk about how, like Sulwe, you were also teased as a child about the […]
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Picture Books to Celebrate Black History Month
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