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A SPECTRUM OF DIVERSE BOOKS COMING IN 2021 FROM SIMON & SCHUSTER CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING VOLUME 7 SHARE BLACK STORIES Curls Dreams for a Daughter A joyfully poetic board book that delivers A Caldecott Honor–winning author and an ode to African American girls and the illustrator celebrate a Black mother’s beauty of their curls. hopes and dreams for her daughter. has written RUTH FORMAN is a highly acclaimed writer and CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD poet, as well as a former teacher. many award-winning books for children, including Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; GENEVA BOWERS has illustrated children’s books Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the The Dragon Thief, Beyoncé: Shine Your Light, and Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Curls, among others. ON SALE MARCH 2021 Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. ON SALE NOW! Little Simon BRIAN PINKNEY has won two Caldecott honors, a BB: 9781534446311; EB: 9781534446328 Coretta Scott King Illustration Award, four Coretta All ages; Grades P & up Scott King Illustration Honors, and the Boston Glow, a board book that delivers an ode to the Globe–Horn Book Award. beautiful light of African American boys, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is available May 2021! HC: 9781534451988; EB: 9781534451995 BB: 9781534446335; EB: 9781534446342 Ages 4-8; Grades P-3 If Dominican Were a Color Me & Mama The colors of Hispaniola burst into life An ode to the strength of the bond in this striking, evocative debut picture between a mother and a daughter as book that celebrates the joy of being they spend a rainy day together. Dominican. COZBI A. CABRERA received a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Her cloth dolls (Muñecas) have SILI RECIO is an Afro-Dominican storyteller, garnered the attention of collectors around the disruptor, and Mami. world. BRIANNA MCCARTHY is a mixed media visual Denene Millner Books communicator and self-taught artist. HC: 9781534454217; EB: 9781534454224 Denene Millner Books ON SALE NOW! Ages 4 & up; Grades P-3; Lexile® AD470L HC: 9781534461796; EB: 9781534461802 School Library Journal ON SALE NOW! Ages 4-8; Grades P-3; Lexile® AD640L Publishers Weekly Spanish language edition also available! Si Quisqueya fuera un color HC: 9781534477094; EB: 9781534477100 SHARE BLACK STORIES Kamala Harris RESPECT The first and only picture book From a creative team with multiple biography of Vice President Kamala Caldecott Honors comes a vibrant Harris, the daughter of immigrants who portrait of Aretha Franklin. grew up to defend the rights of people everywhere. CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD has written many award-winning books for children, including NIKKI GRIMES’s distinguished works include the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; ALA Notable book What Is Goodbye?, as well as Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the ON SALE NOW! the novels Jazmin’s Notebook, Dark Sons, and The ON SALE NOW! Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Road to Paris, all of them Coretta Scott King Author School Library Journal Honor Books. Booklist FRANK MORRISON is the award-winning illustrator LAURA FREEMAN has illustrated many children’s of many books for young readers, including Jazzy books over the years, including the Coretta Scott Miz Mozetta, winner of the Coretta Scott King - John King Honor book Hidden Figures: The True Story of Steptoe Award for New Talent; Little Melba and Her Four Black Women and the Space Race, by Margot Big Trombone, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Lee Shetterly and Winifred Conkling. book; Muhammad Ali; and How Sweet the Sound. Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum Books for Young Readers HC: 9781534462670; EB: 9781534462687 HC: 9781534452282; EB: 9781534452299 Ages 4-8; Grades P-3; Lexile® AD890 Ages 4-8; Grades P-3; Lexile® AD830L The Cost of Knowing Alex Rufus has the ability to see the future; when he sees a vision of his younger brother’s death, his journey turns into a swift battle against time, the future, and the past. BRITTNEY MORRIS is an alumna of Boston University, where she founded the university’s Creative Writing Club. Her acclaimed debut novel, SLAY, captured the attention and imaginations of readers across the country. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers HC: 9781534445451; EB: 9781534445475; eAudio: 9781797117898 ON SALE APRIL 2021 Ages 12 & up, Grades 7 & up King of Ragtime Threads of Peace A celebratory history of African American A stirring biography for budding composer Scott Joplin, the ragtime activists, chronicling the journeys for musician who helped usher in the age peace of both Martin Luther King Jr. and of jazz. Mahatma Gandhi. UMA KRISHNASWAMI is the author of several STEPHEN COSTANZA is a celebrated author/ children’s books including The Grand Plan to Fix illustrator as well as a professional musician, Everything and The Problem with Being Slightly practiced in ragtime and classical music. Heroic. ON SALE AUGUST 2021 Atheneum Books for Young Readers Caitlyn Dlouhy Books HC: 9781534410367; EB: 9781534410374 HC: 9781481416788; EB: 9781481416801 Ages 4-8, Grades P-3 ON SALE AUGUST 2021 Ages 9-14, Grades 4-9 Long Way Down Jump at the Sun Jason Reynolds’s Newbery Honor, Printz Newbery Honor–winning author of Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor– Genesis Begins Again shines the light winning, #1 New York Times bestselling on Zora Neale Hurston, an extraordinary Long Way Down is now a graphic novel! writer who changed the face of American literature. JASON REYNOLDS is also a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a two-time ALICIA D. WILLIAMS is the author of Genesis Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Begins Again, which received a Newbery and Kirkus Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta ON SALE JANUARY 2021 Prize honors, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, Scott King honors. Reynolds is the 2020–2021 Kirkus Reviews and for which she won the Coretta Scott King - John National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Steptoe Award for New Talent. DANICA NOVGORODOFF is an artist, writer, graphic JACQUELINE ALCÁNTARA was awarded the ON SALE NOW! designer, and horse wrangler. inaugural We Need Diverse Books Illustrator Kirkus Reviews Caitlyn Dlouhy Books mentorship in 2016. BCCB HC: 9781534444959; EB: 9781534444973 School Library Journal Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Ages 14 & up; Grades 9 & up; Lexile® HL630L Booklist HC: 9781534419131; EB: 9781534419148 Ages 4-8; Grades P-3 Wings of Ebony Your Corner Dark A Black teen from Houston learns about This gritty debut follows eighteen-year- her magical heritage, throwing her into a old Frankie Green as he hopes to save his world of gods, evil, and discovery in this father by joining his Uncle’s drug gang in genre-bending fantasy debut. Kingston, Jamaica. J. ELLE is a first-generation college student, having DESMOND HALL has worked as a high school worked in writing, publishing, and education. teacher and counselor to ex-cons. His work and While volunteering, she helps aspiring writers and advocacy has connected him with several important advocates for marginalized voices. New York City organizations and creatives, including Denene Millner Books filmmaker Spike Lee. HC: 9781534470675; EB: 9781534470699; Atheneum Books for Young Readers eAudio: 9781797120362 HC: 9781534460713; EB: 9781534460737; Ages 14 & up, Grades 9 & up eAudio: 9781797112213 Ages 14 & up, Grades 9 & up ON SALE JANUARY 2021 ON SALE JANUARY 2021 The Black Kids Legendborn A gripping, important tale of a wealthy A contemporary twist on classic black teenager coming of age in the mythology, this fantasy follows Bree midst of the 1992 Rodney King Riots. Matthews as she discovers a world of Southern Black girl magic and a school CHRISTINA HAMMONDS REED is a Los Angeles campus with dark secrets. native, who was just eight years old at the time of the Rodney King Riots. Her previous work has been TRACY DEONN is a devoted science fiction and published in The Santa Monica Review and One fantasy enthusiast in addition to writing and Teen Story. working in education, theater, and video games. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Book #1 of Legendborn HC: 9781534462724; EB: 9781534462748 Margaret K. McElderry Books Ages 14 & up, Grades 9 & up; Lexile® HL830L HC: 9781534441606; EB: 9781534441620; eAudio: 9781797113463 Ages 14 & up, Grades 9 & up; Lexile® HL730L ON SALE NOW! ON SALE NOW! School Library Journal Booklist Shelf Awareness BookPage Publishers Weekly School Library Journal Booklist BookPage PICTURE BOOKS I See You See Together We March What starts as an ordinary walk for a pair March through history and discover of siblings turns into an eye-opening twenty-five groundbreaking protest journey about the extraordinary wonders movements that have shaped the way around us with the help of imagination. we fight for equality and justice today. RICHARD JACKSON is the critically acclaimed author LEAH HENDERSON is the author of Together We ON SALE FEBRUARY 2021 of several beloved children’s books, including Have A March and One Shadow on the Wall. Look, Says Book and This Beautiful Day. TYLER FEDER has illustrated for Netflix, Comedy ON SALE JANUARY 2021 PATRICE BARTON’s gorgeous digital artwork Central, ESPN, and more. appears in picture books, chapter books, and Atheneum Books for Young Readers children’s magazines alike. HC: 9781534442702; EB: 9781534442719 Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Ages 7 & up; Grades 2 & up HC: 9781481492003; EB: 9781481492010 Ages 4 & up, Grades P & up A Sled for Gabo In this heartwarming, instant classic, Gabo enjoys the wonder and magic of his first snow with the help of his new, welcoming neighbors. EMMA OTHEGUY is the author of bilingual picture book Marti’s Song for Freedom as well as her middle grade novel Silver Meadows Summer. ANA RAMÍREZ GONZÁLEZ’s work includes development on the Oscar-winning Pixar film Coco as well as the accompanying picture book.