“Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of Big, which was awarded the 2024 Caldecott Medal, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor, in addition to being a National Book Award finalist.
Vashti is also the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe (for which she received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor), Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty’s I Love You Like Yellow, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others.
A two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, Vashti lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- 60 Pages – 05/02/2023 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
Vashti received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Film and Video from Calarts. Her Experimental films and videos focus on her Caribbean Heritage and folklore. They have shown around the world at film festivals and venues including the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival.” (Courtesy of VashtiHarrison.com)
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Books by Vashti Harrison available on Amazon.com:
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- 60 Pages – 05/02/2023 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 96 Pages – 12/05/2017 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 96 Pages – 11/19/2019 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 96 Pages – 11/06/2018 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 26 Pages – 10/01/2019 (Publication Date) – LB Kids (Publisher)
- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 26 Pages – 09/29/2020 (Publication Date) – LB Kids (Publisher)
- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 78 Pages – 12/12/2023 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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- Cherry, Matthew A. (Author)
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- 32 Pages – 05/14/2019 (Publication Date) – Kokila (Publisher)
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- Sehgal, Surishtha (Author)
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- 32 Pages – 01/30/2018 (Publication Date) – Beach Lane Books (Publisher)
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- Sehgal, Surishtha (Author)
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- 32 Pages – 01/30/2018 (Publication Date) – Beach Lane Books (Publisher)
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- Harrison, Vashti (Author)
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- 192 Pages – 12/04/2018 (Publication Date) – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
