KidsLIVE! Author Talk with Stephanie Seales

By Samantha Mairson-Dougherty, Children's Librarian, Van Cortlandt Library

January 24, 2025

photo of smiling Black woman sitting in a field of yellow flowers alongside a cover of a picture book

Join us live at Soundview Library on Tuesday February 18 at 3:30 PM for an author talk with Stephanie Seales! In this program, we'll be discussing Stephanie’s debut picture book, My Daddy is a Cowboy. There will be a Q&A with the author and the audience followed by an activity together.

Can't make it to Soundview Library? You can join this program virtually via Zoom, or attend an in-person livestream at select NYPL locations. Visit the events page for in-person livestream locations.

Borrow My Daddy is a Cowboy from the Library:

My Daddy is a Cowboy
by Stephanie Seales; illustrated by C. G. Esperanza

A young African American girl and her father take a horseback ride through the city where they share a passion for horses. This vibrantly illustrated story celebrates the joys of being an urban cowboy and spending time with the people you love.

Looking for more books like My Daddy is a Cowboy? Check these out:

Hair Love
by Matthew Cherry; illustrated by Vashti Harrison

A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses : A True Story
by Lester Julius; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

A Black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral.
I Want My Dad!
By Tony Ross

When the Little Princess discovers that her dad, the King, is not as adventurous as the other dads, she decides to give some fun activities a try without him and realizes she is more like her father than she thought.

Here are some at-home activities inspired by My Daddy is a Cowboy:

While a young Panamanian American girl and her father share "just-us" time on an early morning horseback ride around their town, he tells her cowboy stories and she realizes she is a cowboy too.