From the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon

|and Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a different way.

Told from the loving perspective of a mother of a child with autism, Next Level shows

the full humanity of people who move through the world and communicate in their own unique,

complete, and powerful way. Doyon’s powerful love letter to her son invites us to “level up”

and see our shared humanity in new and limitless dimensions.

Samara Cole Doyon (Portland, ME) is both a second-generation Haitian American and a proud Mainer, with half of the roots of her family tree reaching generations deep into the soil of the Pine Tree State. She is a freelance writer, teacher, wife, and mother. She has been a regular contributor at Black Girl In Maine Media and has been featured in the “Deep Water” poetry column of the Portland Press Herald.

Kaylani Juanita’s mission as an artist is to support the stories of the underrepresented and create new ways for people to imagine themselves. Her work has appeared at the Society of Illustrators and the BBC website, and she is the illustrator of the picture books Ta-Da! and the critically acclaimed When Aidan Became a Brother. She lives in the Bay Area in California.