Vashti Harrison, LITTLE LEGENDS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Vashti Harrison is the exceptional children’s book author and illustrator of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World, and most recently Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History, plus board books Dream Big, Little One, and Think Big, Little One. She has also illustrated many other books including Sulwe by Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, which is now a New York Times best seller, Cece Loves Science, Hair Love, and others. I met Vashti at the Brooklyn Book Festival and watched her do an illustrator smackdown which my kids thought was basically the coolest thing ever. I'm super excited that I got to talk to Vashti about her work!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.3	Moms don't have time to read books.
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0:44.7	Zibiby for this exclusive offer. I'm here today with Vashti Harrison, who's the children's book
0:50.7	author and illustrator of little leaders, bold women in black history,
0:54.8	little dreamers, visionary women around the world, and most recently little legends,
0:59.0	exceptional men in black history, plus board books dream big little one and think big little one.
1:04.2	She has also illustrated many other books, including Soulway by Academy Award winner Lupita Nyango,
1:09.9	which is now a New York Times bestseller,
1:12.6	CeCi Love Science, Hair Love, and others.
1:14.9	Vashti is also a filmmaker, her film center around her family's history and culture in the Caribbean.
1:19.5	Originally from Virginia, Vashti earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA in film and video from Cal Arts.
1:25.8	She currently lives in Brooklyn, and I met Vashti at the
1:28.7	Brooklyn Book Festival and watched her do this Illustrator SmackDown, which my kids thought was
1:34.1	basically the coolest thing ever. So I'm super excited to have Vashti come over and talk to her about
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