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Just Like Me
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  • Published: 19 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780525582090
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $45.00

Just Like Me

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EBook
14 Jan 2020
Audiobook
15 June 2021
Paperback
5 Oct 2022
Hardback
19 Mar 2020
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An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them.

An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them.

I am a canvas
Being painted on
By the words of my family
Friends
And community

From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother and girls who wish they had a father. With bright portraits in Vanessa's signature style of vibrant colors and unique patterns and fabrics, this book invites readers to find themselves and each other within its pages.

"A dynamic, uplifting, and welcoming world of girls."--Kirkus 

"Thoughtful, inclusive, and celebratory"--Publishers Weekly

"Bursting with positivity, this would be a great book to use in primary school classrooms when discussing issues of friendship, diversity, and self-esteem."--Booklist
  • Published: 19 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780525582090
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the authors

Vanessa Newton

Vanessa Brantley Newton, author of Let Freedom Sing, was a little girl of three when she found a box of crayons and wished to be an artist. At school, Vanessa met a teacher/artist who encouraged her. Now she is living her dream. She is largely self-taught, though she has attended art school in New York. Vanessa lives in East Orange, New Jersey with her family.
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Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Vanessa Brantley-Newton is a self-taught illustrator, doll maker, and crafter who studied fashion illustration at FIT and children's book illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the author and illustrator of Grandma's Purse, Just Like Me, and Becoming Vanessa, and has illustrated numerous children's books, including the New York Times bestsellers The King of Kindergarten and The Queen of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes and Sewing Stories by Barbara Herkert. Vanessa currently makes her nest in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, and a very rambunctious cat named Stripes. Learn more about Vanessa and her artwork at VanessaBrantleyNewton.com and on Facebook and Instagram.
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Praise for Just Like Me

Praise for Grandma's Purse:
An Indie Next List selection
"No illustrator does clothes, decor, and style better than Brantley-Newton."--New York Times
"An excellent treat for grandkids to share with their own grandmas and grandpas, or the other way around."--Kirkus
"Brantley-Newton's vividly colorful images paint the happiness the little girl feels in her grandmother's presence."--SLJ
"An exuberant melange of brightly colored, cheerful images, perfectly matched to the cheerful tone of the intergenerational story."--Booklist
"A heartfelt homage to brown girls and their wonder-inducing grandmothers."--Horn Book