Indigo Dreaming

Dinah Johnson is the author of Black Magic, Hair Dance!, All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts, H Is for Harlem, and several other books. She is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. You can catch up with Dinah at www.dinahjohnsonbooks.com.Anna Cunha is a Brazilian illustrator, living and working in Belo Horizonte. She has illustrated more than twenty books, including the celebrated A Story About Afiya, and has won the AEILIJ Prize for her work. You can visit Anna at annacunha.com.

Saturated, layered art by Cunha employs visible textures to add depth to each illustration. In concert with playful, dreamlike prose, which details events over the course of a given day, motion-filled landscapes offer images “of the two of us playing/ in the same sun/ in the same sand,/ hand in hand.” — Publishers WeeklyFull of meaningful relationships, this picture book is a joyous, loving celebration of the African diaspora around the globe. — Booklist[Two] girls, while separated by an ocean, have much in common, as shown in Cunha’s textured, colorful illustrations and Johnson’s engaging text. — Horn Book MagazineStriking and cozy all at once. — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Johnson’s near-rhyming verse is as lulling as the sea [and] Cunha’s textured soft pastels create a wistful, dreamy atmosphere. A gorgeous book that will touch every child’s longing to connect with someone “out there” who is like them. — School Library Journal