What Love Looks Like

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From Laura Obuobi, author ofBlack Gold and NAACP Image Award nominee, and illustrator Anna Cunha, comes a whimsical bedtime story about the love between a Black father and his daughter, perfect for Father's Day. This tender tale with lush natural imagery and pure Black joy captures loves vastness, showing us its greatest form is often the one between parent and child.

One question must be answered before Afia can slip into a peaceful sleep: what does love look like With the companionship of her loving papa, Afia journeys to find love and learns that it is the warmth of the suns skin-tingling hugs, the babbling brooks soothing song, and other mesmerizing gifts of nature. But Afias quest also teaches her that she may not have to go too far to see the emotion at the heart of the worlds wonders.

Author Bio

Anna Cunha is a Brazilian illustrator, living and working in Belo Horizonte. Some of her picture books include Fly, written by Brittany J. Thurman; Anita and the Dragons, written by Hannah Carmona; and the award-winning A Story about Afiya, written by James Berry. She graduated with a degree in fine arts from Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais and got a graduate degree in illustration from EINA Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona. Anna has illustrated more than twenty books for Brazilian and foreign publishers and has won the Aeilij Prize for her work. She's also been nominated several times for the Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious Brazilian literature prize, been awarded a special mention at the Joo-de-Barro Prize, and was one of the Brazilian entrants for the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava.