/ My Friend!, written by Taye Diggs and illustrated by Shane Evans, is a picture book about what it means to be a friend.
Through the decades, children’s book author and illustrator Shane Evans and stage, film and television actor Taye Diggs have stayed fast friends and collaborators.
Shane Evans and Taye Diggs first met in the 1980s when they were students at a performing arts high school in Rochester, New York. Evans had just moved from Buffalo, New York, and he was starting as a sophomore at a new school.
“What are you?” Evans recalled Diggs asking an open question, possibly about his fashion, or what group he fit into. And Evans replied, “I’m just me.”