Book - Layla's Happiness

• 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winner for Illustration

• 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Honor for Writing

• A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2020 Written by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie Illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin Seven-year-old Layla loves life! So she keeps a happiness book. What is happiness for her? For you? Spirited and observant, Layla's a child who's been given room to grow, making happiness both thoughtful and intimate. It's her dad talking about growing-up in South Carolina; her mom reading poetry; her best friend Juan, the community garden, and so much more.

Written by poet Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin, this is a story of flourishing within family and community.  

8.25" (W) x 11.5" (H)

48 pages