NoNieqa Ramos
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BEAUTY WOKE...
Beauty Woke is a modern spin on "Sleeping Beauty," about a Puerto Rican girl who falls into a deep sleep after experiencing racial bias whose wokeness emerges when she learns to seek refuge in the love of her family and embrace her cultural identity.
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HAIR STORY...
Written in rhythmic verse, this picture book follows two friends, a Boricua girl and a Black girl, as others first try to tame their tresses and eventually celebrate their gorgeous, natural hair. Keisha Morris will illustrate; publication is planned for spring 2021.
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Beauty Woke is a modern spin on "Sleeping Beauty," about a Puerto Rican girl who falls into a deep sleep after experiencing racial bias whose wokeness emerges when she learns to seek refuge in the love of her family and embrace her cultural identity.
ADD TO GOODREADS
. . .
HAIR STORY...
Written in rhythmic verse, this picture book follows two friends, a Boricua girl and a Black girl, as others first try to tame their tresses and eventually celebrate their gorgeous, natural hair. Keisha Morris will illustrate; publication is planned for spring 2021.
GOODREADS LINK COMING SOON!
ABOUT NONIEQA...
NoNieqa Ramos is an educator, literary activist, and writer of “intense” literature. She wrote the THE DISTURBED GIRL’S DICTIONARY, a 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens, a 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection, and a 2019 In the Margins Award Top Ten pick. Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams, called THE TRUTH IS “a gorgeous novel about privilege and prejudice, love and loss grief and gratitude.” Versify will publish her debut picture book BEAUTY WOKE spring 2021 and YOUR MAMA Fall 2021!
www.nonieqaramos.com
NoNieqa Ramos is an educator, literary activist, and writer of “intense” literature. She wrote the THE DISTURBED GIRL’S DICTIONARY, a 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens, a 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection, and a 2019 In the Margins Award Top Ten pick. Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams, called THE TRUTH IS “a gorgeous novel about privilege and prejudice, love and loss grief and gratitude.” Versify will publish her debut picture book BEAUTY WOKE spring 2021 and YOUR MAMA Fall 2021!
www.nonieqaramos.com