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No one knows maps like Nikki - but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time for the wedding?
No one knows maps like Nikki - but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time?
Nikki's family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of Jamaican black cake, and most importantly to Nikki, the big map book!
Nikki loves geography and enjoys tracing the routes to all the places her relatives live - her Grandpa in Florida, her cousins in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. She daydreams of England, where other family lives, and Jamaica and Africa, where her roots run deep.
Her attention comes back to the road trip when it's clear that Daddy's taken a wrong turn. "I can help!" says Nikki, who proves to be an excellent navigator. She guides them back to the Bronx Expressway, under the elevated subway tracks, onto a street of brown row houses and safely to Grandma's.
Inspired by the childhoods of author Nadia L. Hohn and illustrator TeMika Grooms, Getting to Grandma's House is full of fun historic details - a world before Google Maps! - and authentic cultural moments shared by diasporic families, whose stories can be traced across continents. A fantastic representation of Black girls in STEM.
Key Text Features
Illustrations
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
illustrations
• Nikki's fascination and ease with maps and geography combats the underrepresentation of Black girls in STEM in our media and pop culture.
• The story is based on experiences from Nadia's childhood. She has family in Canada and the US and is a frequent flyer and enthusiastic promoter.
• Touches lightly on concepts of immigration and diaspora-a reality for many People of Color, whose family stories stretch across oceans and continents.
• Nadia Hohn, author of the Malaika books, is one of Groundwood's bestselling creators. The series has sold over 20,000 copies in the US and Canada.
• Half a million copies of Malaika's Costume were given to first graders across Canada when the book was selected for the TD Grade One giveaway in 2022.
• TeMika is a newer children's book illustrator. Previously, she worked as a civil engineer and took the plunge during the pandemic to devote her time to writing and art.
• TeMika met Nadia when she was selected as an Illustration Mentee in the We Need Diverse Books Program, and was a member of the first cohort for the Highlights Foundation and the Brown Bookshelf Amplify Black Stories program.
No one knows maps like Nikki - but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time?
Nikki's family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of Jamaican black cake, and most importantly to Nikki, the big map book!
Nikki loves geography and enjoys tracing the routes to all the places her relatives live - her Grandpa in Florida, her cousins in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. She daydreams of England, where other family lives, and Jamaica and Africa, where her roots run deep.
Her attention comes back to the road trip when it's clear that Daddy's taken a wrong turn. "I can help!" says Nikki, who proves to be an excellent navigator. She guides them back to the Bronx Expressway, under the elevated subway tracks, onto a street of brown row houses and safely to Grandma's.
Inspired by the childhoods of author Nadia L. Hohn and illustrator TeMika Grooms, Getting to Grandma's House is full of fun historic details - a world before Google Maps! - and authentic cultural moments shared by diasporic families, whose stories can be traced across continents. A fantastic representation of Black girls in STEM.
Key Text Features
Illustrations
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
illustrations
• Nikki's fascination and ease with maps and geography combats the underrepresentation of Black girls in STEM in our media and pop culture.
• The story is based on experiences from Nadia's childhood. She has family in Canada and the US and is a frequent flyer and enthusiastic promoter.
• Touches lightly on concepts of immigration and diaspora-a reality for many People of Color, whose family stories stretch across oceans and continents.
• Nadia Hohn, author of the Malaika books, is one of Groundwood's bestselling creators. The series has sold over 20,000 copies in the US and Canada.
• Half a million copies of Malaika's Costume were given to first graders across Canada when the book was selected for the TD Grade One giveaway in 2022.
• TeMika is a newer children's book illustrator. Previously, she worked as a civil engineer and took the plunge during the pandemic to devote her time to writing and art.
• TeMika met Nadia when she was selected as an Illustration Mentee in the We Need Diverse Books Program, and was a member of the first cohort for the Highlights Foundation and the Brown Bookshelf Amplify Black Stories program.