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This beautiful board book by award-winning author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe celebrates the joy, hope and pride that a new baby brings. "Dream great dreams as you soar to new heights." In this eight-page chunky board book, bright and bold illustrations celebrate the wonder of a newborn baby coming into our world. With words of encouragement and love, parents and guardians can tell their baby just how loved they are with this book. An explosion of joy, brightness and happiness, with bold illustrations of beautiful black babies on every page A lovely book to read out loud and express how much you love your baby Written and illustrated by the award-winning Javaka Steptoe

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Somewhere in Brooklyn, a little boy dreams of being a famous artist, not knowing that one day he would make himself a king.Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. However, before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games, in the words that we speak and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own style introduces young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean - and definitely not inside the lines - to be beautiful.

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