An "own voices" story of a child finding and trusting her words
NADIA HOHN is a classroom teacher, presenter, and award-winning author of the picture books Malaika's Costume and Malaika's Winter Carnival. Named by CBC as one of the top Black Canadian Writers to Watch in 2018, Nadia holds degrees from the University of Waterloo and OISE. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. EUGENIE FERNANDES grew up painting with her father, comic-book illustrator Creig Flessel. Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she has illustrated numerous critically acclaimed picture books, has written 18 stories and illustrated over 100 books for children. Having lived on islands for all her life, Eugenie now lives and works on a small island in southern Ontario.
