Author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Frank Morrison almost can't stop joking with each other long enough to talk about their new picture book.

"Some like to think we're a winning combination," says Boston Weatherford. "Of course, it's all because of me," she laughs, but Morrison quickly agrees. "Of course, of course," he says. "You always keep me on my game."

Their first children's book together was 2019's The Roots of Rap . They were paired up because of Morrison's background in the hip-hop industry. "I started hip-hop dancing and then I started club dancing," he explains. This was back in the 1980s, and he went on tour to Europe. "That was a big part of my life and it kind of changed my scope on art as well," Morrison says, "because I had a chance to go to the Louvre whil

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