NINA: A STORY OF NINA SIMONE – An Interview with Author Traci N. Todd

There are moments when you see the cover of a book and your jaw just drops. Just falls right off, hits the floor, and rolls under the credenza.

Here.

I’ll hand you an example:

There you go. Now fetch your jaw and wipe off those dust bunnies before you go reattaching it.

NINA, which releases on September 28th, is not the first picture book biography of Nina Simone out there. It will not be the last picture book biography of Nina Simone ever written. But what it does it does exc...