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Hey You!: An empowering celebration of growing up Black

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An empowering celebration of growing up Black’ (2021) by Dapo Adeola - is an empowering, uncompromising (why should it be? written by Nathan Bryon and published by Puffin in 2019, which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. This book 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. It might be a more useful jumping off point for discussion with an older child, maybe in late elementary or middle school, who has had a chance to absorb and contextualize that information.

An empowering celebration of growing up black and she worked on the 25th anniversary edition of Baroness Floella Benjamins classic memoir Coming to England. written by Nathan Bryon and published by Puffin in 2019, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2020. Onyinye Iwu is a freelance children’s book illustrator and author based in London, she has practiced as a freelance illustrator and designer for over 10 years working on a range of design briefs and projects but mainly focusing on the uplifting and representation of people of African and Caribbean background in publishing, media and the arts. Black illustrators collaborated to make this picture book that reminds Black children that they are loved and can do whatever they dream to be. From the pain of systemic racism to the hope of the future, it’s an honest but largely uplifting read, aimed at children particularly.Being a Black woman in the United States has never been 100 percent easy and I never really became confident in my Blackness and my potential to be successful until my mid to late 20s. An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black, featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators, which also went on to win Illustrated book of the year at The British Book Awards in 2022. It's a book filled with love and hope, while acknowledging the suffering which has come before, and still sadly exists in many places today. Themes of self-confidence, self-love, freedom and empowerment, apparent throughout the book's illustrations and a written text, add to meaning and impact of the book. This picture book was born out of Adeola’s reaction to the killing of George Floyd and his realisation that, as a child, there were no books he saw that featured black children in a meaningful way.

A picture book quite unlike any other, because each double page spread features the artwork of a different artist. Also would love to commend Dapo for bringing in and introducing us to so many other incredibly talented black artists, in a world where most people are looking out for themselves only it’s truly refreshing to see someone open doors and bring his tribe along with him.

Adeola’s picture book aims to lift up and encourage Black children to understand their potential, express their creativity, and to follow their dreams. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).

An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black , featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators, which also went on to win Illustrated book of the year at The British Book Awards in 2022. This beautiful book also serves as a brilliant directory of work from Black illustrators, enabling parents to look up their other books, or keep an eye out for their work in the future.As an adult I LOVE this book, but I also struggle with books aimed at children that require the social, political, and historical background knowledge of adults. Add to that the incredible work of 18 black illustrators who have collaborated with Dapo on the illustrations and you have something very special indeed. Dapo was announced as the winner of the inaugural Illustrator of the Year Award for The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (the Lollies), which celebrates the best and funniest children's books in the UK and Ireland, voted for by children in 2023. They are acknowledgements that it’s the qualities in you that count’ rather than the definition of others . It's often easy for us to unite over pain and trauma, but it's also important to unite over joy and happiness.

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