gratitude Verlag
If my hair could talk
If my hair could talk
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The 7-year-old Akoma lives with her parents in a small town near Hamburg. In Twi – a language spoken in Ghana – Akoma means "heart." Often, Akoma's father says to her, "With your Akoma, the world is open to you." However, Akoma's big heart reaches its limits when strangers touch her hair without permission.
Children's book, hardcover
Reading age: 4 years and older
Hardcover edition: 44 pages
We love it because
The authors and illustrators of the Gratitude Publishing House do an excellent job of presenting stories in which a wide variety of people, with different backgrounds, physical limitations, various sexual orientations, and religions can find and recognize themselves in books.
About the Publisher
The gratitude publishing house was founded in 2019 by actress, speaker, and author Dayan Kodua. It stands for the promotion of diversity and empowerment through stories and is one of the few publishers that exclusively publishes books featuring BPoC protagonists. By identifying with these diverse heroes, children and young people from all backgrounds are encouraged to discover their own potential. In this way, the gratitude publishing house actively contributes to a diverse German literary landscape and a positively evolving society.
At the same time, the gratitude publishing house aims to provide greater visibility for BPoC newcomer authors and illustrators.For a person who has been part of the white majority society since birth, it is already difficult to establish oneself in the literary world; for BPoC authors and illustrators, it means a completely different kind of struggle, requiring a different kind of courage to achieve the same goal. The gratitude publishing house acknowledges this and wants to give exactly these individuals the opportunity to reach children and young people with their words or images.
