Selina Alko

About The Author

Selina Alko grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, surrounded by the melody of words and stories from different places. Selina’s books include The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial MarriageDaddy Christmas and Hanukkah MamaStars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport, and I Is for Immigrants, which garnered a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators. She also illustrated The Keeper of Stories, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honor. Selina lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her children and her cat Czen. Visit her work at SelinaAlko.com.

Books by Selina Alko

The Keeper of Stories
A Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honor
Three starred reviews!

In this “poignant” (Booklist, starred review) and uplifting true story of community, a neighborhood comes together in the wake of a library fire to save the stories within, offering a ...
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