The Idea in You: A Picture Book

(Hardback)

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A joyous exploration of imagination and finding inspiration, The Idea in You is the debut picture book from QuestloveNew York Times bestselling author, six-time GRAMMY Awardwinning drummer, producer, and Academy Awardwinning filmmakerand Coretta Scott King Honor Awardwinning illustrator Sean Qualls

An idea can come from anywhere.
Start here: reach up into the sky
And unhook a star.

Questloves debut picture book, an uplifting story about passion, creativity, and joyexuberantly illustrated by award-winning artist Sean Quallswill inspire kids to find their own creative pursuits.

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Qualls creates fanciful illustrations that are full of depth and texture, and which help to bring the idea of ideas to lifeno small feat. An aspirational...selection aimed at encouraging imagination. * School Library Journal *
[M]otivational...Together, the words and visuals offer readers opportunities to explore how to turn their thoughts into realities...Poignant * Kirkus Reviews *

Author Bio

Questlove is a six-time GRAMMY Awardwinning musician, Academy Awardwinning filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, co-founder of the Roots, and the musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where the Roots serves as the house band. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Mo Meta Blues, Creative Quest, Music Is History, and his first childrens book series, The Rhythm of Time, as well as the James Beard Awardnominated somethingtofoodabout, Mixtape Potluck, and Grammy-nominated audiobook Creative Quest. Questlove made his directorial debut with the Academy Award, GRAMMY Award, BAFTA Award-winning documentary film Summer of Soul, which broke the record for the highest-selling documentary to come out of the Sundance Film Festival. He is the publisher of AUWA Books, an imprint of MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sean Quallss work is a mixed-media combination of painting, drawing, and collage. He has illustrated many picture books, including Before John Was a Jazz Giant, which received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award; The Poet Slave of Cuba, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; Dizzy,an ALA Notable Book and a Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Child magazine best book, as well as BCCB Blue Ribbon Book and a Booklist Editors Choice; and Emmanuels Dream, which was a Schneider Award winner. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.