Hello Gang,
This morning the longlist for the Jhalak Prize was announced. First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers.
Last year they introduced a children's category and here it is. It's epic!
Atinuke & Onyinye Iwu - Too Small Tola
Nii Ayikwei Parkes & Avril Filomeno - The GA Picture Alphabet
Nizrana Farook - The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Kereen Getten - When Life Gives You Mangoes
Emma Hill - Baby Girl
Danielle Jawondo - And the Stars Were Burning Brightly
Catherine Johnson - Queen of Freedom
Hiba Noor Khan & Laura Chamberlain - The Little War Cat
Patrice Lawrence - Eight Pieces of Silva
Bali Rai - Mohinder’s War
Margaret Sturton - A Fox Called Herbert
Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors
Now then, i'd like to see as many of these books as possible in as many schools as possible, so I wondered if you could help.
Harriet (@ANovelNeuron on Twitter) has very kindly donated money to buy some of these books and I'll pit in another £100 myself. The more money we can raise, the more schools will benefit, so, (once again), i'm asking if you can help.
If you'd like to donate some money towards this, can you paypal what you can to biggreenbookshop@hotmail.com, using family and friends, adding the reference JHALAK.
If you're a school who'd like to benefit frm some of these books, please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com, with the words JHALAK PRIZE as the subject.
I'll need a contact name and address to send the books to.
I'll run this for a week and hopefully we can raise a little bit of money so that a few schools can benefit.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and please do share it if you can.
Ta!
