Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is The New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus,Half of a Yellow Sun andAmericanah. Beyond the novel, she has written the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, and the essays We Should All Be Feminists ; Dear Ijeawele, orA Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions ; and Notes on Grief A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Chimamanda divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Writing here as Nwa Grace-James, in tribute to her parents, Grace and James, Mama's Sleeping Scarf is her debut children's book Joelle Avelino is a Congolese and Angolan illustrator who grew up in the United Kingdom. She obtained a BA (lions) in Illustration with Marketing from the University of Hertfordshire. Joelle collaborated with author Dapo Adeola to create Hey You ! An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Block, winner of the British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year, and also worked on the 25th anniversary edition of Baroness Floella Benjamin's classic memoir Coming to England.
Writing here as Nwa Grace-James, in tribute to her parents, Grace and James, Mama's Sleeping Scarf is her debut children's book Joelle Avelino is a Congolese and Angolan illustrator who grew up in the United Kingdom. She obtained a BA (lions) in Illustration with Marketing from the University of Hertfordshire. Joelle collaborated with author Dapo Adeola to create Hey You ! An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Block, winner of the British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year, and also worked on the 25th anniversary edition of Baroness Floella Benjamin's classic memoir Coming to England.
