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Fall 2020 Childrenâs Flying Starts By PW Staff | Dec 18, 2020
We spotlight the authors of six of the season’s most promising children’s and YA debuts.
Legendborn, a mash-up of Arthurian legend and Black girl magic set in the contemporary South.
As a college senior, Chloe Gong, author of
These Violent Delights a fantastical take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ set in 1920s Shanghai is one of PW’s youngest ever Flying Starts.
Cemetery Boys, one of the year’s standout YA novels.
Elatsoe, a supernatural mystery starring an asexual Lipan Apache teenager.
Author-illustrator Jashar Awan’s debut picture book,
What a Lucky Day!, which follows a group of animals as they confront their stereotypes and misconceptions of each other, has a timely message.
By Libby Morse |
If you’re a
New Yorker subscriber, you’ve probably encountered Jashar Awan’s work: the venerable magazine and the “Goings on About Town” section in particular was one of his best clients during his almost two decades as a freelance illustrator in the New York City. But you’re forgiven if you don’t make the connection between the graphic novel realism of those images and the strongly geometric pictures in his debut,
What a Lucky Day! (Norton Young Readers), which are modeled on the look of cut paper.
The big departure in style resulted from a confluence of circumstances and influences. Awan and his wife became parents in 2013 and moved from New York to Ohio in 2017 to be closer to her family. The couple met at the Pratt Institute; she’s now a designer at Jo-Ann Stores. Fatherhood inspired Awan to think about the children’s books he had loved as a kid he cites Crockett Johnson, Ezra Jack Keats, and Marc Simont as visual inspirations