Bøger af Nikki Grimes

Discover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to defend the rights of people everywhere in this picture book biography of Vice President Elect Kamala Harris.

A ';picture book homage to words' with gorgeous collage illustrations from multi-award-winning poet Nikki Grimes and Caldecott Medalist Javaka Steptoe. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

This memoir, told in poetry and prose, explores Grimes harrowing past, showing how words helped her conquer the hazards of life.

In 1988, award-winning poet Nikki Grimes spent three weeks along the east coast of China. At the same time, artist and China native Ed Young was there writing and sketching his impressions in a personal journal. Both observed signs of the old China alongside the new, and both set what they saw on paper. Through Grimes's penetrating verse and Young's deft drawings, Tai Chi Morning blends two voices that speak not only about China but also about the many ways of experiencing the world.

This Coretta Scott King Honor book for young adults from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nikki Grimes tells the dual stories of Sam, a teen whose dad leaves him and his mother for another woman, and Ishmael, the son of Abraham, who must deal with a different type of rejection when Isaac arrives.

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes presents the story of Mary "Mister" Rudine, a teenage girl whose life tips sideways after one mistake: falling for Trey. Now forced to hide not only her shame but a growing secret, Mister tries to find solace in the story of another unwed teenage mother, one who shares her first name.