Hey You!: An empowering celebration of growing up Black

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This groundbreaking picture book is a lyrical, inspirational exploration of growing up Black, written by award-winning illustrator Dapo Adeola, and brought to life by some of the most exciting Black illustration talents working today.

The following KS2 Reading resources include responding to Dapo’s letter on his hopes for the future, inferring and justifying the feelings of characters in Hey You!I can see the need for this book in that setting, but can't help feeling in Australia we need something with a wider, multi-cultural focus to speak to our Indigenous children, our Asian-Australian children, our Arabic-Australian children etc. Hey you is incredibly written, easy for children from multiple age brackets to digest and start conversation Each page is filled with amazing work from different artists reminding little black children to date to dream, to stand in what they believe , to be themselves the best version of themselves . Winner of the Anna Dewdney Award (2022) Winner of a Nibbie (British book award) 2022 Illustrator of the London Book Fair. Gladys is the illustrator of FRESH PRINCESS (HarperCollins, 2019), THE ELEPHANTS HIDE AND SEEK HANDBOOK (Sourcebooks 2020) LEONORA BOLT: SECRET INVENTOR (Puffin 2021) as well as a chapter book series for EPIC!

Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches).

Themes of self-confidence, self-love, freedom and empowerment, apparent throughout the book's illustrations and a written text, add to meaning and impact of the book. 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. It’s a message that is both urgent and timeless–and offers a rich and rewarding reading experience for every child.