![]() ![]() And I said, ‘Sarah Jones is my top choice.’ And they contacted her,” Adeyemi said. Still, finding the right artist for the job wasn’t easy but Adeyemi eventually stumbled upon artist Sarah Jones, whose work the author calls “powerful.” ![]() They were basically the first pieces of black art I had ever seen in my life.”Īdeyemi said it was important that the cover of her book depict “black people and black women,” adding that it’s no mistake that Zélie’s hair goes from straight on the cover of Children of Blood and Bone to 4C on the cover of Children of Virtue and Vengeance. “The whole story of Children of Blood and Bone came from me seeing two pieces of Black art, eight months apart. NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 11: Tomi Adeyemi attends the 2018 Girls Write Now celebrates Day of the Girl, hosted by DVF on Octoin New York City. ![]()
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