Amanda Gorman has a new children’s book coming out next year.
Viking Children’s Books will publish the poet’s Girls on the Rise, illustrated by Loveis Wise, in the winter, the press announced in a news release.
Gorman gained literary fame in 2021 after she became the youngest poet to read a poem at a presidential inauguration. That poem, “The Hill We Climb,” was later published as a book, and she went on to publish a poetry collection, Call Us What We Carry, and two children’s books, Change Sings: A Children's Anthem, illustrated by Loren Long, and Something, Someday, illustrated by Christian Robinson.
Last week, she read a new poem, “This Sacred Scene,” at the Democratic National Convention. Gorman has previously said that she wants to run for president in 2036.
Girls on the Rise, Viking Children’s Books says, is an “electrifying original poem [that] celebrates the strength of girls in their many forms—all beautiful, not for how they look but for how they look into the face of fear and reminds us how girls have shaped our history while marching boldly into the future.”
In an interview, Gorman told Time magazine, “I didn't realize [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] was going to be running when I wrote that book, but I couldn't have chosen a more perfect time to indulge in the fantasy of having it out in the world.”
Girls on the Rise is slated for publication on Jan. 7, 2025, less than two weeks before the new president is inaugurated.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
