INDIGO DREAMING

Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young Black girls - on different sides of the sea - who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture even though they are separated by location.

Dinah Johnson, a Black South Carolinian, weaves a beautiful tale of diaspora while lightly touching on Gullah Geechee culture and its connection to the Mother Land. In a contemporary celebration of the African Diaspora, a young girl dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Her reflections come together, creating an imaginative and illuminating vision of home.

Born in Charleston, Dinah Johnson is a graduate of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, went to college at Princeton University, and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University. Now a resident of Columbia, she teaches at the University of South Carolina and has written several books for children including Quinnie Blue, Sunday Week, All Around Town, Sitting Pretty, and the upcoming H is for Harlem.

Anna Cunha is a Brazilian illustrator, living and working in Belo Horizonte. She has illustrated more than twenty books for Brazilian and foreign publishers and has won the Aeilij Prize for her work. She's also been nominated several times for the Jabuti Prize, the most
prestigious Brazilian literature prize, been awarded with a special mention at the João-de-Barro Prize, and was one of the
Brazilian entrants for the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava.