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From Amber McBride, National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, comes her debut picture book, a heartwarming story about one girl''s magick-filled summer with her grandmother. She learns about hoodoo and rootwork culture, the traditions of her African ancestors, and finding beauty in nature. Roots are our ancestor''s Magick. Summer for Juniper has finally arrived, which means rootwork with Grandma can finally begin! It''s time to collect healing herbs into protective mojo bags; to fill mason jars with all the love, history, dirt, and magick one can fit. It''s time to talk to the tranquil willow trees and feel the soft earth between one''s toes; to hear Grandma share their ancestors'' stories, with her dog Shiloh underfoot. From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride comes a loving story about rootwork, a powerful African spiritual practice, and the significance of familial connections and traditions, reminding us how sacred it is to reconnect with the people we love, the earth, one''s heritage, and the healing power that provides.
About the author
Amber McBride’s debut YA novel in verse, Me (Moth), was a National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner. She is the author of the bestselling novels Onyx & Beyond, Gone Wolf, We Are All So Good at Smiling, and the poetry collections Poemhood: Our Black Revival (four starred reviews) and Thick with Trouble. She received her MFA in poetry from Emerson College, and her poetry has appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, Willow Springs, the Cincinnati Review, and the Rumpus. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit her at authorsunbound.com/amber-mcbride.
Violeta Encarnación is a Cuban artist based in New York City, fascinated with telling stories through her work, and the illustrator of Together We Remember by Jackie Morera. She is a passionate, award-winning illustrator who enjoys traveling between physical materials, digital media, and animation. Designing compositions that play with proportions and colors while telling a story from an unexpected perspective is one of her favorite things to experiment with. She is an avid plant lover who is always pushing the limit on how much green her apartment can take, and she’s a culinary enthusiast on the weekends. Visit her at violetaencarnacion.com.
