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Redwood Court, by London Ladd.

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✍🏿Debut You 2022: A Debut Author Series

Meet Laura Obuobi, Author of Black Gold

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Explain your book’s journey—how long did it take—from idea to publication?

I wrote Black Gold in the fall of 2018 and revised it on my own for a few months. Later, I registered for the Kweli Conference in the spring of 2019 and signed up for an industry expert to look at the manuscript to see how else I could improve it. She offered great feedback, and I was encouraged to begin querying with it. I signed with an agent that same year in the fall of 2019, and we found a publisher (HarperCollins Children) shortly afterward.

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📖Black Gold

London Ladd

HarperCollins

Picture Book

40 Pages

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Under the Freedom Tree, by London Ladd.

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✍🏿Debut You 2023

Meet Alana Tyson, author of My Red, White, and Blue

My Red, White, and Blue follows a young Black boy as he learns about patriotism in his community. With the help of his grandfather, he learns some lessons about what it means to have your own voice and to choose how he relates to the American flag, which means so many things to so many people.

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📖My Red, White, and Blue

Alana Tyson

London Ladd

Philomel Books

Picture Book

January 17, 2023

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📚Picture Book for Women’s History Month

📖Oprah: The Little Speaker

Carole Boston Weatherford

London Ladd

Two Lions (2010)

At age three, Oprah began performing in churches, becoming known to adoring crowds as the Little Speaker. When she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered, "I want to be paid to talk." Here is the story of Oprah Winfrey’s childhood, a story about a little girl on a Mississippi pig farm who grew up to be the "Queen of Talk." 

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Women’s History Month

Oprah: The Little Speaker

Author - Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator - London Ladd 

At age three, Oprah began performing in churches, becoming known to adoring crowds as the Little Speaker. When she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered, "I want to be paid to talk." Here is the story of Oprah Winfrey’s childhood, a story about a little girl on a Mississippi pig farm who grew up to be the "Queen of Talk." The host of the Emmy Award-winning Oprah Winfrey Show, she currently directs a media empire that includes television and movie productions, magazines, a book club, and radio shows. An author’s note is included.

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My People, by London Ladd.

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Woke, by London Ladd.