Being You

For Ages: Pre K - 4

Description:

Award-winning author and professor Alexs Pate delivers a message of hope and self-discovery in a time of uncertainty in our world. YOU is a beautiful picture book celebrating every readers' individuality and talents. With an authentic voice, YOU's poetic message of love and optimism for the future speaks directly to today's children. YOU helps us to see the wonder and light within each of us.

About the Author:

Alexs Pate is an award-winning American author, novelist, playwright, and writing professor. He has published five novels to date, including the New York Times Bestseller Amistad. His novel Losing Absalom received the Minnesota Book Award and was named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Pate Also serves as president of Innocent Technologies, LLC, whose mission is to provide professional development experiences to educators and healthcare workers that improve and build better relationships with students and patients.

About the Illustrator:

Soud is a freelance illustrator working in advertising, editorial, and children's illustration. He has illustrated many books for children and young readers in his native Brazil. He won the Abril Award of Journalism for Best Illustration, and the Highly Commended Seal by FNLIJ (Brazil's National Children's Book and Youth Foundation). In the US, Soud illustrated Dionne Warwick's picture book, Say A Little Prayer, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and won a Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal.

Why we love this book:

Diverse creators contribute to the #ownvoices movement. A Positive, self-affirming message will appeal to kids of all ages. Stimulates conversations around self-acceptance and bullying.