{"id":463086,"date":"2025-09-30T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463086\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:45:26","slug":"family-love-and-resilience-in-picture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463086\/","title":{"rendered":"Family love and resilience in picture books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From big brothers to grandmothers, these heartfelt picture books celebrate the families who help us grow. Join Derrick Barnes, Ryan Allen, and Patrice Gopo for stories about love, resilience, and what it means to show up for one another.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" data-attachment-id=\"320201\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/2025\/09\/30\/celebrating-family-love-resilience\/dbf-2025-2-derrick-ryan-patrice\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-2-Derrick-Ryan-Patrice.png?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DBF 2025-2-Derrick, Ryan, Patrice\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-2-Derrick-Ryan-Patrice.png?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-2-Derrick-Ryan-Patrice.png?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-2-Derrick-Ryan-Patrice.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-320201\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-q6r5o526\">Award-winning creators <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/derrickdbarnes.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Derrick Barnes<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/authors\/Ryan-Allen\/228704823\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ryan Allen<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patricegopo.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patrice Gopo<\/a>\u00a0share stories that remind young readers how family helps us grow into our best selves.<\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-uj3wc535\">Following the panel, authors will proceed to signing tables to autograph books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" data-attachment-id=\"320202\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/2025\/09\/30\/celebrating-family-love-resilience\/dbf-2025-3-ryan-derrick-and-patrice-headshots\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-3-Ryan-Derrick-and-Patrice-headshots.png?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DBF 2025-3-Ryan, Derrick, and Patrice headshots\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-3-Ryan-Derrick-and-Patrice-headshots.png?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roughdraftatlanta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-3-Ryan-Derrick-and-Patrice-headshots.png?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBF-2025-3-Ryan-Derrick-and-Patrice-headshots.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-320202\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-ewds51503\">Purchase your book from Little Shop of Stories using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/littleshopofstories.com\/event\/2025-10-04\/dbf-2025\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this link<\/a>, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the festival.<\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-q5frh425\"><strong>About the Moderator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/515771_4d42a83f1a0346769115a814874c7edc~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-mmoqb359\">Shelly Anand is the author of acclaimed picture books Laxmi\u2019s Mooch (Kokila\/PRH\/2021), which was featured on the Today show, NBC News, and in Glamour magazine, and I Love My Body Because (Simon &amp; Schuster\/2022), a 2023 Rise Honoree. Shelly\u2019s third picture book, entitled In This Family from Simon &amp; Schuster, came out\u00a0 May 2024 and has been celebrated as \u201d a rich and inviting portrait of a loving multiracial family\u201d by Kirkus Reviews. Shelly is also a human rights attorney and the co-founder of Sur Legal Collaborative, an immigrant and worker rights legal nonprofit based in Georgia. She received her BA from Wellesley College and her JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. She lives in Georgia with her husband and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From big brothers to grandmothers, these heartfelt picture books celebrate the families who help us grow. 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