Her parents emigrated from Nigeria to Ohio, but this Caldecott-winning author illustrator lives in Providence RI where she attended the Rhode Island School of Design. She took a class there on creating picture books and made a dummy of a story about a kind woman sharing her stew. When the instructor invited editors and art directors to look at the class projects, the author was offered a publishing contract and her debut story, Thank You Omu, came out in 2018 and went on to win numerous awards. Her second book, Saturday (2019) tells of a mother and daughter who have everything go wrong on their day downtown, except that they spend it together. The author/illustrator's art style is collage, using cut paper, paint and china marker. This is Oge Mora.
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