In the first book, Dyamonde ends up befriending new boy Free. Dyamonde is trying to make friends, but she misses her old friend Alisha.
After her folks split, her mom moved Dyamonde from Brooklyn up to Washington Heights. Nikki Grimes has created Dyamonde Daniel who may be short, but has a big mouth to make up for it. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.Finally, finally, FINALLY and early reader featuring a spunky African American girl to put on the shelves beside Clementine, Ivy & Bean and the rest. He has illustrated the biographies of many historical and cultural figures, and he frequently lectures at schools across the country. He has illustrated numerous picture books, including The Deaf Musicians (by Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs), which received the Schneider Family Book Award.
Gregory Christie was named a top children's book illustrator by the New York Times and has received three Coretta Scott King Honors. Lewis), Dark Sons, The Road to Paris, and Words with Wings were each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Nikki Grimes won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, which honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children over a period of years. Her books Meet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper), Jazmin's Notebook, Talkin' About Bessie (illustrated by E.B. Additionally, her book Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (illustrated by Bryan Collier) was a New York Times bestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her book Malcolm X: a Force for Change. Among the many accolades she has received are the Golden Dolphin Award (2005),the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children (2006), the Coretta Scott King Award (2003) for Bronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Nikki Grimes is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of dozens of children's and young adult books as well as a poet and journalist.
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