Humble And Kind

(Hardback)

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LyricPop is a childrens picture book collection by LyricVerse and Akashic Books that launched in June 2020. LyricPop presents your favorite song lyrics by renowned songwriters as illustrated picture books, instilling a love of music and song among young readers. 50,000 copy first printing. Lori McKenna is a GRAMMY Awardwinning singer-songwriter. In 2016, McKenna made history by becoming the first woman ever to win the Country Music Associations Song of the Year two years in a row thanks to cowriting Little Big Towns Girl Crush and penning Tim McGraws number one Humble and Kind solo. Tim McGraws performance of the song at the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards resulted in 64,000 sales for the week. The single has gone on to sell well over a million copies in the US. Humble and Kind won a GRAMMY for Best Country Song, Video of the Year at the 2016 CMT Music Awards, Song of the Year at the CMA Awards, and Country Song of the Year at the American Music Awards. The song reached number one on the country music charts in both the US and Canada. The McGraw album, Damn Country Music, that Humble and Kind appears on, reached number five on the Billboard 200 chart and number three on BillboardHer songs have been recorded by numerous artists over the years, including: Reba, Alison Krauss, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Hunter Hayes, etc.

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Children will feel reassured by the sentiments within this expressive extension of the music, and a sweet daydream of a picture book.
--School Library Journal

A harmonious outing.
--Kirkus Reviews, one of the 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2021

Now Humble and Kind comes to picture-book readers with illustrations by Katherine Blackmore as part of [the] LyricPop series. In its pages, an interracial family with a Black father and a White mother enjoys bucolic summer days, building a treehouse when it's sunny, making a blanket fort when it rains, and always loving one another.
--Kirkus Reviews, One of 10 Picture Books to Look For in 2021

Included in Publishers Weekly's Spring 2021 Children's Sneak Previews

Author Bio

Home and the people who make it have captivated Lori McKenna for years. Over the last three decades, as she became a wife and mother of five, she has also emerged as one of the most respected, prolific singer-songwriters in popular music. Her 2016 release The Bird and the Rifle netted three GRAMMY nominations, along with Americana Music Association nods--all firsts for McKenna as an artist. Then, she made history: In 2016, she became the first woman ever to win the Country Music Association's Song of the Year two years in a row thanks to cowriting Little Big Town's Girl Crush and penning the number one hit song Humble and Kind. Both songs also clinched back-to-back GRAMMY awards for Best Country Song. In 2017, she became the Academy of Country Music's first female Songwriter of the Year. The Tree, her much-anticipated eleventh studio album, was released on July 20, 2018, on CN Records via Thirty Tigers. Produced by Dave Cobb, The Tree, a 2019 Americana Awards Album of the Year nominee, takes one of McKenna's signature themes--family--and builds a tapestry of experiences she has lived and overheard, been told and dreamed up, to create a stunning ode to life's defining relationships.

Katherine Blackmore (illustrator) is a freelance artist with over twenty-five years experience as an illustrator, animator, and teacher. She has designed holiday products for American Greetings, animated on feature films for Disney, and currently teaches children in the Creative Core Art Program, which she founded. Along with teaching art, Blackmore creates art for kids and is a published illustrator of several children's picture books. She lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband, Eric, their three cats, and a tortoise named Walter.