We all need help sometimes, and together, we have everything we need.
An uplifting story of found family, mutual aid, and communal care among neighbors.
Auntie Lorna may not be Daddy or Momma's sister, but she's family all the same. She looks after Jack when Momma is at night school and Daddy works late.
"We can get very far in the world if neighbors help neighbors," Lorna always says. So when Jack and his parents realize Lorna can't afford to keep her lights on, they see their opportunity to help out in return.
Winsome Bingham, author of the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning Soul Food Sunday, teams up with Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award-winning illustrator Briana Mukodiri Uchendu in Auntie’s Dance, a timely story of resilience, Black joy, and genuine community care.
Winsome Bingham is a soul food connoisseur, master cook, and disabled US Army war veteran. She has over fifteen years of teaching experience, and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She is the author of the picture book Soul Food Sunday, which received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor; with Wiley Blevins and illustrator Jason Griffin, she coauthored The Table, which received four starred reviews. You can find her at binghamwrites.com.
Briana Mukodiri Uchendu is an illustrator, visual development artist, and a first-generation Nigerian-American. Her work is inspired by her interests in folklore, film, and animation and her passion to highlight voices that usually go unheard. Her work as an illustrator includes The Talk by Alicia D. Williams, We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams, and Night Market by Seina Wedlick. She lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas.
We all need help sometimes, and together, we have everything we need.
An uplifting story of found family, mutual aid, and communal care among neighbors.
Auntie Lorna may not be Daddy or Momma's sister, but she's family all the same. She looks after Jack when Momma is at night school and Daddy works late.
"We can get very far in the world if neighbors help neighbors," Lorna always says. So when Jack and his parents realize Lorna can't afford to keep her lights on, they see their opportunity to help out in return.
Winsome Bingham, author of the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning Soul Food Sunday, teams up with Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award-winning illustrator Briana Mukodiri Uchendu in Auntie’s Dance, a timely story of resilience, Black joy, and genuine community care.
Author
Winsome Bingham is a soul food connoisseur, master cook, and disabled US Army war veteran. She has over fifteen years of teaching experience, and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She is the author of the picture book Soul Food Sunday, which received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor; with Wiley Blevins and illustrator Jason Griffin, she coauthored The Table, which received four starred reviews. You can find her at binghamwrites.com.
Briana Mukodiri Uchendu is an illustrator, visual development artist, and a first-generation Nigerian-American. Her work is inspired by her interests in folklore, film, and animation and her passion to highlight voices that usually go unheard. Her work as an illustrator includes The Talk by Alicia D. Williams, We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams, and Night Market by Seina Wedlick. She lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas.
