Over In Motown
by Debbie Taylor
| Illustrated by Keisha Morris
| Picture Book
| Published 05-01-2019
An energetic picture book celebrating the music and rhythms of the industry that fueled Detroit in the Motown era is also a counting book told in the rhyming tradition of Over in the Meadow.
Debbie Ann Taylor is a picture book author and magazine writer. Her work has been published in children’s magazines including Spider, Cricket, and Pockets Magazine. Taylor is the author of the acclaimed picture book, Sweet Music in Harlem and books for the Toggle Talk educational series. Her hobbies include visiting museums and botanical gardens with her family. Taylor and her husband live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of Over in Motown and Step It Up! The French Dukes.
Keisha Morris is an illustrator living and working in Maryland. What she loves about her illustration process is getting to create characters whose personality jumps off the page and the need to tell their story. She earned her BFA in Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and mentored with illustrators such as Sean Qualls, Selina Alko and Dan Santat. She is a freelance writer and illustrator for picture books and a member of SCBWI. When she is not drawing, she loves spending time with her wife, daughter, and two crazy cats Elphie and Ollie!