Yearning

bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky; died 2021 in Berea, Kentucky) was an American author, feminist theorist, cultural critic and poet who wrote more than thirty books on race, gender, class, love and teaching. Her pen name, deliberately styled in lower case, honors her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. Her best-known works include Ain't I a Woman, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Teaching to Transgress and All About Love, and she also wrote ch...

Chris Raschka (born March 6, 1959) is an American illustrator, writer, and violist. He contributed to children's literature as a children's illustrator. He was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012. Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1994 but Raschka may be most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal, and his book A Ball for Daisy, which won the 2012 Caldecott Medal. Raschka was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylva...