What Will My Story Be?

From the creator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Pashmina, comes a debut author-illustrated picture book that encourages kids to be their most creative selves and to imagine all the places that their stories can take them.After spending an afternoon listening to her aunties tell her stories from their pasts, a young girl ruminates on all of the tales that she can create using her imagination and begins to feel as if the possibilities for her future are endless. Filled with Nidhi Chanani's signature vibrant illustrations, What Will My Story Be? is for anyone who finds inspiration in the quiet moments and cherishes the wisdom of the generations that came before them.

AUTHOR ON THE RISE: Nidhi Chanani is a critically acclaimed graphic novel creator and picture book illustrator who's already laid the groundwork with her previous publications-Pashmina and I Will Be Fierce (written by Bea Birdsong). She has a steady stream of projects coming out over the next two years (see publishing schedule below) and she's primed to make a splash with this author-illustrator debut in the picture book space.ENGAGED AUTHOR WITH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM: Nidhi is plugged into the children's and comic book worlds and regularly does events in both spaces. She brings a large audience to this project between her network and sizeable social media platforms. She has 18.5K followers on Instagram and 7K followers on Twitter. She posts about and promotes her work on both. She's ready to partner with us and do everything she can to make this book a success.GRAPHIC NOVEL WITH A MOVIE DEAL: Last year, Nidhi's graphic novel debut, Pashmina, was optioned by Netflix with Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) set to direct.TIMELESS THEMES WITH BACKLIST POTENTIAL: Picture books with celebrated themes, like creativity, imagination, problem solving, and "writing one's own story" have garnered a lot of attention in recent years and tend to backlist well. What Will My Story Be? will sit alongside other notable picture books like Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal, Drawn Together by Minh Le and Dan Santat, You Matter by Christian Robinson, and What Do You Do With An Idea? by Kobi Yama and Mae Besom.