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Hohn, Nadia L.

Getting Us to Grandma’s

32 pp. | Groundwood | October, 2024 | Trade ISBN 9781773066899 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 9781773066905
(3) K-3 Illustrated by TeMika Grooms. In the 1980s, Jamaican Canadian Nikki, her siblings, and their parents drive from Toronto to New York for Uncle Travis’s wedding. Nikki traces their journey in a road atlas, reflecting on the places that connect her bloodline. After a missed turn, Nikki’s confident map-reading helps them reach Grandma’s house on time. The realist digital illustrations use multiple perspectives, saving the story’s confined automobile setting from monotony. This nostalgic story highlights Black girl brilliance and diasporic identity.
Reviewer: Summer Edward

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