Stories Like Me
Your Crown Shines: For Ketanji Brown Jackson and You
Your Crown Shines: For Ketanji Brown Jackson and You
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Synopsis
Penned by award-winning poet jessica Care moore and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator, Dare Coulter (An American Story), this Oprah-approved poem inspired by the historic appointment of United States Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is now available as a perfect book for anyone who reaches for the stars.
Black women and girls have long been told their limitations by others, and Ketanji Brown Jackson was no different. But young Ketanji wouldn’t let negativity strip her of her crown.
Unshook and unbothered, Justice Jackson blazed a trail that would take her all the way to the Supreme Court.
An empowering picture book adaptation of moore’s poem that took the nation by storm, Your Crown Shines is a love letter to the Black women pioneers of the past and to the next little girl who will one day be crowned. This melodic anthem, with luminous illustrations by Dare Coulter, is a celebration of one woman’s story that will inspire generations to come.
Author
jessica Care moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 1017 Knight Arts Award winner, a 2016 Kresge Arts fellow, an NAACP Great Expectations awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and the critically acclaimed techno choreopoem Salt City. Her work has been published in numerous literary collections and she has performed on stages all over the world, including the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute for Contemporary Arts. jessica lives and writes in a historic Detroit neighborhood with her son, King Thomas.
Illustrator
Dare Coulter has worked to create a career that focuses around heartfelt presentations of the human experience, life, joy, and resilience. Dare is an award-winning professional sculptor, artist, muralist, and illustrator. She has illustrated nine children's books, including Kwame Alexander’s An American Story and You Are My Sunshine. While Dare is pursuing her dream of creating monumental sculptures to Black joy all over the world, she is having a great time visiting schools and painting murals and sharing her passion for art with the world. She graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s in art and design but considers herself a graduate of Meredith College’s art program as well.
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Product Details
ISBN: 9780063311398
40 pages
10 in H | 10 in W | 1.1 lb Wt
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