![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And published by an African American woman-me!-who is absolutely obsessed with bringing quality stories celebrating the everyday lives, beauty and wonder of African American children.īoard books featuring black babies, written and illustrated by black humans, published by black folk, celebrating the beauty of black children? My God, y’all: this is a unicorn. ![]() Illustrated by fine artist Cathy Ann Johnson, also African American. What’s even more rare? It’s a board book, y’all. I just had to have What is Light? for Denene Millner Books, because it celebrates brown babies in a way that is all-at-once delicious and rare for the pages of children’s tomes. Dig deeper and there’s an unbridled celebration of the joy, spirit, and light children see in their own reflection.Īnd when I got to the final page? Let’s just say it’s a fitting finale for this sweet tale. It is this sentiment that pulled at my heartstrings when I first read the manuscript for Markette Sheppard’s What is Light? a beautiful book that explores the many ways light finds its way into a child’s everyday world: through the bright tail of a firefly, in the twinkle of a shiny star, all up in the colors of a butterfly’s fluttering wings-a mother’s tender hug. Truly, they make me swoon everything about them is rainbows and juicy juice and bubbling brown sugar sweet sweet, and it makes my heart beat fast to hear them giggle and play and talk and hug and just… be. ![]()
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