Meet Pooky

About the Book

POOKY from DETROIT!! Some people say she reminds them of the next Dora the Explorer!! Her name is POOKY, but a boy calls her Pooky Booky! She is a little 2nd grader that just moved to the suburbs from the slums of Detroit, and she shares her culture with her new friends. She was being teased for being different but she tells her classmates that God made them all different.

About the Author

Domonique Mayhawk is a freelance children book illustrator who loves and serves Jesus Christ! She sets Christ as the foundation of her work and uses her talent to touch the lives of people. Her inspiration for writing and illustrating this book first came from God and second came from her childhood. Many of her experiences are told in "Meet Pooky", but a lot came from her imagination to help make the story fun for children to read! Domonique was born and raised in Detroit,Michigan in 1981 and moved to Ann Arbor when she was 11 where she had to adapt to change in environments. She went on to get her BFA from University of Michigan, she then got her first job as an illustrator for a book called LJ and the Dreammaker by Sherry O'Neal which is still in production. She now hopes to start her own freelance children illustration company, and write and illustrate more children books.