LET’S GO TO THE PARK

Tonya Duncan Ellis is the author of the Sophie Washington chapter book series, an inaugural member of the Brown Bookshelf and the Amplify Black Stories storyteller cohort, Tonya has spoken and taught at writing conferences at the Highlights Foundation and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Winter Conference in New York City. She lives in Houston, Texas. Her new picture book, They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.