Caroline Brewer is an award-winning children's book author, artist, environmentalist, literacy consultant, and creator of Nature-Wise, a program for students and teachers that blends literacy and nature exploration. Caroline is also author and illustrator of Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature and author of Say Their Names. She lives in the Washington, DC, metro area. nKwasi Asare was born in Nsawam, near the capital city of Accra, Ghana, and is one of Africa's most prominent and accomplished weavers known for kente cloth, the highly prized Ghanaian cloth that traditionally symbolizes royalty, honor, and leadership.
For the United Nations' fiftieth anniversary in 1995, he created a new kente cloth design. Until 2017, it replaced the original cloth created by Kwasi's father, A. E.
Asare. www.kwasiasare.com n nEkua Holmes was awarded a Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King's John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, Robert Siebert Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book award for Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, her first illustration project. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration twice: Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets and Stuff of Stars. www.ekuaholmes.comn
LIBRIS4% înapoiCaroline Brewer is an award-winning children's book author, artist, environmentalist, literacy consultant, and creator of Nature-Wise, a program for students and teachers that blends literacy and nature exploration. Caroline is also author and illustrator of Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature and author of Say Their Names. She lives in the Washington, DC, metro area. nKwasi Asare was born in Nsawam, near the capital city of Accra, Ghana, and is one of Africa's most prominent and accomplished weavers known for kente cloth, the highly prized Ghanaian cloth that traditionally symbolizes royalty, honor, and leadership.
For the United Nations' fiftieth anniversary in 1995, he created a new kente cloth design. Until 2017, it replaced the original cloth created by Kwasi's father, A. E.
Asare. www.kwasiasare.com n nEkua Holmes was awarded a Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King's John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, Robert Siebert Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book award for Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, her first illustration project. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration twice: Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets and Stuff of Stars. www.ekuaholmes.comn