This heart-warming and heartfelt debut picture book from multi-award-winning author, Patrice Lawrence, will help ensure that the struggles and achievements of the Windrush generation are never forgotten.
Patrice Lawrence (Author)
Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel,
Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize
for Older Children's Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa
Children's Book Award. Her subsequent novels have been much
acclaimed and frequent visitors to prize lists.
Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian
family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast.
Patrice was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in the
Queen's Birthday Honours 2021.
Camilla Sucre (Illustrator)
Camilla Sucre, a Trinidadian American artist who resides in
Baltimore, has found a different kind of home in narrative
illustration. Interested in illustration since she was a child, her
dreams are finally coming true as she loves to explore new avenues
of artmaking and illustration and new stories to tell.
Camilla also has a passion for film and a natural love of movies
and hopes she can one day express that in her work. Her favourite
film is currently 'The Red Shoes', an old movie - which is very
fitting because she loves old things!
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