A Place Inside of Me - by Zetta Elliott (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From award-winning author Zetta Elliott and rising star illustrator Noa Denmon comes a beautiful #OwnVoices poetic picture book about a brown child discovering and accepting their emotional landscape.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Caldecott Honor Book<br><i>Today Show </i>Best Book for the Holidays<br>ALA Notable Book for All Ages</b><br><b>ALSC Notable Children's Book<br>NCTE Notable Poetry Book</b><br><b>Evanston Public Library's Top 100 Great Book for Kids<br>Nerdy Award Winner for Single Poem Picture Book</b><br><b>Bank Street Best Books of the Year<br></b><br><b><br>In this powerful, affirming poem by award-winning author Zetta Elliott, a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year.</b> <p/><i>There is a place inside of me</i><br><i>a space deep down inside of me </i><br><i>where all my feelings hide. </i> <p/>Summertime is filled with <b>joy--</b>skateboarding and playing basketball<b>--</b>until his community is deeply wounded by a police shooting. As fall turns to winter and then spring, <b>fear </b>grows into <b>anger</b>, then <b>pride </b>and <b>peace</b>. <p/>In her stunning debut, illustrator Noa Denmon articulates the depth and nuances of a child's experiences following a police shooting--through grief and protests, healing and community--with washes of color as vibrant as his words. <p/>Here is a groundbreaking narrative that can help all readers--children and adults alike--talk about the feelings hiding deep inside each of us.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>2021 Caldecott Honor Book </b><br><b>A <i>Today Show </i>Best Book for the Holidays</b><br><b>An ALSC Notable Children's Book<br>A NCTE Notable Poetry Book</b><br><b>An Evanston Public Library's Great Book for Kids</b><br><b>A Cooperative Children's Book Center List Pick </b> <p/>A resonant exultation of community and the importance of self-reflection. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>This book delivers positivity, despite the inclusion of police brutality, a Black Lives Matter protest, and a vigil for the dead--all of which affirm the child's realities . . . A well-crafted, twenty-first-century love poem by two truth-telling Black women artists and activists. --<i>The Horn Book</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Zetta Elliott </b>is a black feminist writer of poetry, plays, essays, novels, and stories for children. Her poetry has been published in <i>We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voices, </i>and her picture book, <i>Bird</i>, won the Honor Award in Lee & Low Books' New Voices Contest and the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers. She lives in West Philadelphia. <p/><b>Noa Denmon </b>is a Philadelphia-based artist and illustrator. She is a graduate of The University of the Arts with a BFA in Illustration, and an MAT in Arts and Teaching. She loves patterns, pups, <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, </i>a great cup of coffee, and all spicy foods. <i>A Place Inside of Me</i> is her first picture book.</p>
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