Ep. 267 The Pull to Make Art with Vashti Harrison
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author and illustrator Vashti Harrison joins us to talk about Big, her new storybook educating children on growth and self-love. We discuss how Vashti explored the adultification of black girls, and how she utilized the color pink throughout the book. She also explains how she thinks about parents and kids as her target audience, and the process of linking an author to an illustrator in the world of children's books.
The Stacks Book Club selection for May is This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris. We will discuss the book on May 31st with Nicole Chung.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live |
| 0:15.3 | in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | layman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
| 0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and |
| 0:40.6 | get your tickets before we sell out. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today we welcome the award-winning best-selling children's book |
| 1:00.2 | author and illustrator and filmmaker, Vashdie Harrison. Vashdie just released big her first |
| 1:06.7 | fictional picture book which she both wrote and illustrated. Big is an emotional exploration |
| 1:11.6 | which follows a child's journey to self-love and it shows the power of words to both heel and hurt. |
| 1:17.8 | Listeners at home, you will know Vashdie Harrison from her little leaders series as well as |
| 1:22.4 | being the illustrator behind Lupita Nyongo's soul-way and Matthew Cherry's hair-love. Today, |
| 1:27.9 | Vashdie and I talk about her book Big, the ways that Vashdie approaches writing versus illustrating |
| 1:33.6 | and how she stays connected to young people and her own inner child. Remember, our made book |
| 1:39.1 | club pick is this boy we made, a memoir of motherhood, genetics, and facing the unknown by Taylor Harris. |
| 1:44.5 | We will discuss the book on May 31st with Nicole Chang. Quick reminder, everything we talk about on |
| 1:50.0 | each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. If you are sitting at home |
| 1:54.7 | and you're thinking, gosh, I love the stacks and I want more of this incredible podcast and book |
| 1:59.5 | community. Well, listen, you can have that. You just head to patreon.com slash the stacks and |
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