If my hair could speak
€17.00
7-year-old Akoma lives with her parents in a small town near Hamburg. In Twi – a language spoken in Ghana – Akoma means “heart”. Akoma’s father often says to her: “With your Akoma, the world is your oyster.” However, Akoma’s big heart reaches its limits when strangers touch her hair without asking.
Children's book, hardcover
Reading age: 4 years and older
Hardcover: 44 pages
We love it because
DIVERS/INCLUSIVE
The authors and illustrators of Gratitude Publishing do a great job when it comes to presenting stories in which a wide variety of people, with different backgrounds, with physical disabilities, with different sexual orientations and religions, find and recognize themselves in books.
About the publisher
The gratitude publishing house was founded in 2019 by the actress, speaker and author Dayan Kodua. It stands for the communication of diversity and empowerment through stories and is one of the few publishers that exclusively publishes books with BPoC heroes. By identifying with these diverse heroes, children and young people of all backgrounds should be encouraged to discover their own potential. In this way, the gratitude publishing house actively contributes to a diverse German literary landscape and a positively developing society.
At the same time, gratitude publishing house wants to help BPoC newcomer authors and illustrators gain more visibility. Because it is already difficult for a person who has been part of the white majority society since birth to gain a foothold in the literary world, for BPoC authors and illustrators it means a completely different kind of struggle, it requires a different kind of courage to achieve the same goal. gratitude publishing house recognizes this and wants to give precisely these people the opportunity to reach children and young people with their words or pictures.