Stormzy’s #Merky Books company has announced its first children’s book, ‘Superheroes’. It features profiles of 50 famous people from underrepresented communities, including George The Poet, Riz Ahmed, Mo Gilligan and Candice Carty-Williams.According to research published by BookTrust last year, only 10% of children’s books published in the UK in 2019 featured characters of colour.
Meanwhile, only 8% of published children’s authors and illustrators in the UK the same year were people of colour.Featuring an introduction by Stormzy, ‘Superheroes’ is written by Sophia Thakur and illustrated by Denzell Dankwah.“The earliest seeds that are planted often influence the rest of the garden”, says Thankur. “If from a young age, we only really meet.
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