About this event
Join us to celebrate the release of Magnolia Flower and learn about the wonderful picture books, board book and YA novels to come. We are excited to partner with Class Act Detroit, a source of free youth programing in Detroit. Together we welcome the community to celebrate Zora Neale Hurston and to be apart of the joy of sharing her stories with the new generation.
Book Tickets save you a spot and include a copy of the new picture book Magnolia Flower as well as support Class Act Detroit. General admission ticket saves you a spot and some of the processes support Class Act Detroit . There will be additional picture books and other young adult titles by Dr. Kendi available for sale at the event.
From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi. Magnolia Flower follows a young Afro Indigenous girl who longs for freedom and is gorgeously illustrated by Loveis Wise (The People Remember, Ablaze with Color).
Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one’s heart.
