Nadia Salomon

Nadia Salomon is a #PitMad Success Story and award-winning author of acclaimed title, A VOICE OF HOPE. It has won a SCBWI Crystal Kite Honor Award, the 2025 BACALA, SLJ Children & Youth Literary Award for non-fiction, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award, and earned two starred reviews. It's the first picture book biography about activist, Myrlie Evers-Williams. Her award-winning debut, GOODNIGHT GANESHA, is also a Bank Street Best Book and ALSC DIA Selection. Her third picture book, A RAKHI FOR RAKESH, released with HarperCollins (Versify).

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