The Talk

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, ready to take on the world, he first must have that very difficult conversation far too familiar to so many Black Americans on how to live in a world where racism is ready to take on YOU....

About the author

Alicia D. Williams is the author of Mid-Air, which was longlisted for the National Book Award; Genesis Begins Again, which received Newbery and Kirkus Prize honors, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, and for which she won the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent; and picture books Jump at the Sun, Nani and the Lion, and The Talk, which was also a Coretta Scott King Honor book. An oral storyteller in the African American tradition, she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.Briana Mukodiri Uchendu, recent recipient of the John Steptoe New Talent Award, is an illustrator, visual development artist, and first-generation Nigerian American. She is the illustrator of multiple picture books including The Talk by Alicia D. Williams, which received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Her work is inspired by her interests in folklore, film, and animation and her passion to highlight voices that usually go unheard. 

Summary

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, ready to take on the world, he first must have that very difficult conversation far too familiar to so many Black Americans on how to live in a world where racism is ready to take on YOU....

Product details

• Authors: Alicia D. Williams
• Assisted by: Briana Mukodiri Uchendu (Illustration)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 2
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2022
• EAN: 9781534495296
• ISBN: 978-1-5344-9529-6
• No. of pages: 40
• Dimensions: 279 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: f-c (spfx: spot matte, embossing) gloss finish+int ill.; POB case art differs from jkt; digital
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; JUVENILE FICTION / General, Children’s picture books, Picture books