Strong Like Me

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A heartwarming picture-book story about finding your own ways to be strong, from writer and influencer Kelechi Okafor. A heartwarming picture-book story about finding your own ways to be strong, from writer and influencer Kelechi Okafor. Kamara loves being super strong - it makes her feel fizzy and zappy! But her classmates and their microaggressions lead her to question herself and the confidence she has in her physical ability. With sport's day and the Big Race looming, does Kamara have what it takes to reach the finish line Strong Like Me is a timely picture-book debut by social activist Kelechi Okafor. This inspirational story sets out to help children discover their power, champion themselves, and be unapologetically secure in who they are. Packed full of heart, the story opens important conversations around ability, intersectionality, race and identity.

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Kelechi Okafor (Author) Kelechi Okafor is a Nigerian born Londoner who acts, directs, writes, hosts an award winning podcast known officially as 'Say Your Mind' and she runs her own pole dance studio in Peckham, South London. Although Kelechi wears many hats; the head those hats are stylishly perched upon, is one filled with incisive observations about society, culture and specifically Black womanhood - shared through many avenues one of which happens to be the online sensation - Sally in HR. Michaela Dias-Hayes (Illustrator) Michaela Dias-Hayes is the illustrator of Kate Greenaway Medal-nominated Sunflower Sisters, (Owlet Press, July 2021), for which she took inspiration from her part-Jamaican heritage and her former long term partner's Indian family. Michaela's first book as both author and illustrator, Colour and Me takes inspiration from conversations with her son. She loves to create accurately portrayed black and brown characters, inspired by her own family and experiences, and places them within stories that explore and celebrate black heritage in an accessible way for young readers.