Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure (A Let's Play Outside! Book)

(Hardback)

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Follow along as a young boy spends the day at the beach with his family in this spare and poetic picture book from award-winning poet and picture book author Shauntay Grant. With a simple storyand simply stunning illustrations from Candice Bradleythis book is an ode to celebrating summers wonders big and small.

Author Bio

Shauntay Grant is an acclaimed poet and author of several picture books, including the forthcoming One Day, When I Wrap My Hair, and My Fade Is Fresh. Her picture book Africville won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor Generals Literary Awards, the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Childrens Book Awards, and the 2019 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. Grant is an assistant professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University, a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and a former poet laureate of Halifax. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Learn more at shauntaygrant.com. Candice Bradley was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fondest childhood memories are of drawing and dancing to Disney classics. She dreamt of either becoming a ballerina at Juilliard or an animator at Cal Arts. Although circumstances would prevent her from pursuing either, she didnt stop there. To fund her own education, she decided to offer services as an illustrator, and thus began her journey as a picture book artist. Bradleys hope as an illustrator is to support the movement of writers redeeming the narrative for minorities and people of color. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family. Learn more at bycandicebradley.com.