“Missing Daddy is a crucial book for our times. Using storytelling and gorgeous artwork, this book brings heart, soul, and deep compassion to the challenges facing kids with incarcerated parents. A much needed piece of children’s literature.”
The Author
Mariame Kaba is an educator and organizer based out of New York City. She has been active in the anti-criminalization and anti-violence movements for the past 30 years. Mariame is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a long-term vision to end youth incarceration.
The Illustrator
bria royal is a multidisciplinary artist from Chicago who considers her animation, comics, paintings, and zines to be the result of a radical healing process that she hopes others will benefit from seeing unfold. Much of her work centralizes black and brown imaginations of womxnhood, femininity, and gender fluidity through a lens of eco-feminism, afro-futurism, and contemporary mythology.
Resources
We've compiled a list of other books, films and resources relevant to children with incarcerated loved ones.
“Daddy calls me light bug because
I’m so pretty and bright.
Since I don’t see him very much,
I hold onto his words real tight.”