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Podcast: The Children's Book Podcast
Episode: Yesenia Moises - Stella's Stellar Hair
Description: Yesenia Moises shares STELLA's STELLAR HAIR, her debut picture book as both author and illustrator. There has been a surge of wonderful picture books featuring Black girls and boys and centering on hair thanks, in part, to the natural hair movement. Yesenia takes the topic interplanetary with, in her words, "big hair and bright colors". The story is inspired by Yesenia's own hair journey and centers on Stella, a young girl preparing for the Big Star Little Gala who visits her aunts on each of the different planets in order to try out their suggestions for how she should style...