We are so honored to share that illustrator Briana Mukodiri Uchendu has won the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent for We Could Fly, written by Rhiannon Giddens and based on the song written by Giddens and Dirk Powell.
The award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee.
These books affirm new talent and offer visibility to excellence in writing or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published book creator.
