Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison)

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Among these biographies, readers will find heroes, role models and everyday women who did extraordinary things. Vashti Harrison’s beloved illustrations of historical figures — scientists, activists, artists, and more — are the perfect gift for today’s young leaders. Featuring 18 trailblazing black women in American history, Dream Big, Little One is the irresistible board book adaptation of Vashti Harrison's Debut book Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. She then went on to receive her MFA in Film and Video from CalArts where she snuck into Animation classes to learn from Disney and Dreamworks legends.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. She earned her BA from the University of Virginia as a double major in Media Studies and Studio Art with concentrations in Film and Cinematography. There are lots of familiar names in the book such as: Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Nina Simone, but there are some lesser known names (to me) so I'll be learning too.I don't have official word on all of this and may need to defer to my publisher and agent for a lot of things, but here I've answered some of the most frequent questions I get about Little Leaders!

Sometimes non-fiction is also a fantastic way to tempt a reluctant reader into sitting down with a book. The book is beautifully illustrated and the mini biographies of the black women is not too wordy so it's quite nice to read. One Black History Month, Vashti Harrison illustrated one African American woman from history every day and posted the portraits online along with a small biography.Vashti Harrison , author and illustrator of the bestselling Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History , is an artist, author and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. An important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history.

Now, utilizing both skillsets, she is passionate about crafting beautiful stories for children and young adults in the film and kidlit worlds. From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world. Backgrounds are minimal, rendered mostly in pale shades, which leaves the focus on the women and helps ground them in history.

It makes a refreshing change to see some pages filled with strong powerful determined achieving Women. Based on her popular Instagram posts from Black History Month 2017 it features 40 biographies of African American women that helped shape history. It resulted in this beautiful and profound book, which chronicles the struggles and achievements of historic and contemporary black women. Featuring 18 trailblazing women artists and scientists, Think Big, Little One is the irresistible board book adaptation of Vashti Harrison's second book Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World.

After a brief stint in television as a production coordinator, she is now a freelance graphic designer and a picture-book illustrator. Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in the world's history, this book educates and inspires as it relates true stories of women who broke boundaries and exceeded all expectations. This fascinating non-fiction picture book explores the life of an inspirational woman who overcame race and gender barriers to become an internationally acclaimed scientist. The legends in this book span centuries and continents, but what they have in common is that each one has blazed a trail for generations to come.

Debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison pairs captivating text with stunning illustrations as she tells the stories of both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history - from nurse Mary Seacole, to politician Diane Abbott, mathematician Katherine Johnson and singer Shirley Bassey. The appeal is very much that of [ Goodnight Stories for] Rebel Girls or Frances Lincoln's Little People, Big Dreams series, but this is the only such collection to focus exclusively on black women. The charming, information-filled full-color spreads show the Leaders as both accessible and aspirational so reader knows they, too, can grow up to do something amazing. For publicity, events, or interviews please use the form below to be connected with the publicist from my publisher LittleBrown Books for Young Readers.