This week, local storyteller Pamela Badila reads us three books celebrating the lives and futures of Black children.
First, “There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me” by Alice Walker and illustrated by Stephano Vitale. Published by HarperCollins. Alice Walker is a poet, writer and activist, and was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. She won in 1983, for "The Color Purple", one of her best-known books.
Second, "Hey Black Child” by Useni Eugene Perkins and illustrated by Bryan Collier. Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Useni Eugene Perkins wrote these words in 1975, as a song for his musical "Black Fairy". Bryan Collier illustrated them in 2017.
And finally, “I Am Every Good Thing” by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C. James. Published by Penguin/Paulsen. Barnes and James won the Coretta Scott King Prize and the Caldecott Honor for an earlier book, "Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut".
15 фев 2022
