"I am a canvas / Being painted on / By the words of my family / Friends / And community."
From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother and girls who wish they had a father.
With bright portraits in Vanessa's signature style of vibrant colors and unique patterns and fabrics, this book invites readers to find themselves and each other within its pages. An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough.
"Ranging from a few lines to the length of a page, the poems are matched with bright, textured, mixed-media illustrations featuring a variety of girls — curly and straight haired, ethnically diverse, blemish dotted, glasses wearing, spunky, shy, lonely, and empowered — in highly relatable moments.... Thoughtful, inclusive, and celebratory, this collection encourages readers to look both inward and outward, and to use kindness as a link to 'go/ higher and higher/ pulling each one up.'" — Publishers Weekly
Recommended Age | 5 - 9 |
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Author | Vanessa Brantley-Newton |
Illustrator | Vanessa Brantley-Newton |
ISBN | 0525582096 |
Publication Date | Jan 14, 2020 |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Language | English |