Q is for Qualls, Sean Qualls

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Honestly I don't think I have spent as much time on any other letter of the alphabet as I did with Q!  Q really stumped me! I could not think of an author or series that started with Q.  I did a few Google and internet searches and found Sean Qualls.

We really enjoyed his book Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel of Ofosu Yeboah while learning about the various countries that make up the continent of Africa.

We discovered that he also illustrated a few other children's books that we can not wait to read:

The Case for Loving talks about the supreme court ruling in Virginia that finally made interracial marriages legal. 








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