Colour and Me by Michaela Dias-Hayes (illustrator)

COLOUR ME! A joyful book of colour mixing that empowers children and shows them that brown skin is beautiful. ?I wrote this book after mixing colours with my son – when he mixed all the paints together, he looked at me and said ?Yuk brown ? I hate brown!? This made me question why. I then explained, ?It’s not yuk – it’s beautiful like you and me.? Then I remembered doing the SAME thing when I was a little girl and it just made me think about how children see the colour brown as ‘not nice’ which then leads to negative feelings about themselves and their skin colour.? AGES: 3 to 5 AUTHOR: Michaela Dias-Hayes lives in Leicester with her son Larson, and they both love to draw and paint! Michaela has been creative ever since her parents bought her pens and colouring books at a very young age. She studied Fashion and Textiles at Leicester’s De Montfort University, and has gone on to design for clients such as Next and Morrisons. She loves to design quirky characters using wax crayons and watercolours, with lots of computer magic involved.