Stacey Abrams’s first children’s book will be published in December.

Stacey Abrams will publish Stacey’s Extraordinary Words, a children’s picture book illustrated by Kitt Thomas, on December 28th with HarperCollins Children’s Books imprint Balzer + Bray. Though Abrams has published three bestselling books for adults under her own name, as well as eight romance novels as Selena Montgomery, this is Abrams’s first children’s book. Stacey’s […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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