The Night Before Kwanzaa
By (Author) Natasha Wing
By (author) Kirsti Jewel
Illustrated by Amy Wummer
Penguin Putnam Inc
Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.
14th November 2023
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage: Poetry
Paperback
32
Width 203mm, Height 203mm, Spine 3mm
108g
Learn all about Kwanzaa in this holiday addition to the Night Before series. It's the night before Kwanzaa, and a little boy is excited to spend it with his family. Every evening, they light a candle, learn about their history, and more! Celebrate Kwanzaa in this installment of the Night Before series, told in the style of Clement C. Moore's classic tale.
Natasha Wing (www.natashawing.com) lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her first book in the Night Before series, The Night Before Easter, was published in 1999.
Kirsti Jewel is an educator, writer, and learner who has spent more than fifteen years working in education, integrating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging (DEIJB) work into everything she does. She is currently the Director of Diversity, Equity & Belonging at Friends Seminary an independent school in Manhattan. She was a Kweli Fellow in 2020, and her first childrens book, What Is Junteenth, was published in 2022 by Penguin Workshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn, and when shes not writing, reading, or engaging in social justice work, shes likely doing yoga or exploring New York with her friends and her Jack Russell terrier, Trinidad-Helsinki.
Amy Wummer is the illustrator of over fifty children's books. In 1998 and 2007, she received the Highlights for Children Cover of the Year award. Amy has illustrated several books in The Night Before series. She lives in Reading, Pennsylvania.