Sharon Dennis Wyeth is a children's author, poet, and memoirist
with over fifty books published. Among her titles are the classic
Something Beautiful, a Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year;
Always My Dad, a Reading Rainbow Book; the American Girl book
Evette- The River and Me, recipient of the 2021 Good Housekeeping
Best Toy Award; and the Step Into Reading leveled reader
Juneteenth- Our Day of Freedom. Wyeth's memoir piece "I'm a Dancer"
was featured in the award-winning anthology The Talk-Conversations
About Race, Love & Truth.
Wyeth is a recipient of the Stephen Crane Literary Award, an NAACP
Education Award, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Award, and aCave Canem
Fellowshipfor African American poets. Additional book honors
include citations from the Children's Book Council, LAMDA Literary
Awards, and the New York Public Library.
Wyeth is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, with an MFA in
creative writing and memoir from Hunter College, where she received
the prestigious Shuster Award. She is a visiting Associate
Professor of creative writing in the Children's Literature
Department at Hollins University. Learn more about her work at
sharondenniswyeth.com.
Chris K. Soentpiet (pronounced soon-pete) was born in South Korea,
and moved to Hawaii when he was eight years old. He is a graduate
of Pratt Institute in New York City. He was the recipient of the
1996 International Reading Award for his illustrations for More
Than Anything Else. He was also awarded the 1996 gold medal at the
Society of Illustrators Original Art Show, for Peacebound Trains.
In his spare time, Mr. Soentpiet promotes the love of children's
literature and the arts by speaking at schools across the country.
Learn more about his work atchrissoentpiet.com and follow him on
Instagram at @chrissoentpiet.
“This moving picture book offers a shining testament to the ability of human beings to find ‘something beautiful’ in even the most unlikely places.”—Publishers Weekly
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