KIDS’ BOOK OF THE WEEK

HEY YOU!

By Dapo Adeola, Puffin, £7.99 (ebook £3.99)

Hey You! is a book that needed to be written – and that is a real shame. A collaboration between Dapo Adeola and 18 illustrators, it’s a picture book guide showing young people of colour what it means to grow up with prejudice and injustice.

A series of clever and witty illustrations matched with informative text guides the reader through a series of situations where they might encounter prejudice, and how to form strategies to overcome a situation before it becomes a problem.

Most of all, Hey You! can teach and empower those learning their way in the world how to cope with the injustice of racism and other forms of prejudice.