New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her books include her critically acclaimed memoir in verse Ordinary Hazards as well as picture books Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice and Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for Bronx Masquerade and earned a Coretta Scott King Author Honor five times—for Words with Wings, Jazmin's Notebook, Dark Sons, Talkin’ About Bessie, and The Road to Paris. Visit nikkigrimes.com
★ ". . . Grimes has written a novel in verse that is an
enthusiastic celebration of the power of words and imagination. . .
Always accessible, Grimes' language is vivid, rhythmic, and
figurative. . . Grimes' words speak to the daydreamer in every
reader." — Booklist, starred review
★ "In this delightfully spare narrative in verse, Coretta
Scott King Award-winning Grimes examines a marriage's end from the
perspective of a child. . . Throughout this finely wrought
narrative, Grimes' free verse is tight, with perfect breaks of line
and effortless shifts from reality to dream states and back. An
inspirational exploration of caring among parent, teacher and
child--one of Grimes' best." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
" . . . Grimes packs substantial emotional heft into her poems,
especially the way that Gabby's parents' separation weighs on her.
. . her poems lovingly convey the rich inner life (and turmoil) of
a girl in the process of finding her voice." —Publishers Weekly
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