To wipe away the tears of joy!
As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet’s eye, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.
This book has me conflicted... I mean, I absolutely love it. It may be my favorite childrens book of all time... but it is just soooo sad at the end! Sad in a good way, the sort of sobbing that you do at the end of a extremely touching movie or novel. There are no words to describe the love poured into this novel. Don't be fooled by the cover, this story is beyond amazing. The love of a boy and his mother...
Stunning map of the potter world for hogwarts fans.
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