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Summary: I Love This Book! Its So Cute! :-)
Review: I loved the content and what the book covered on the positive issues that some African Americans have about hair. However I did not care much for the illustrations which to me do not relay a very positive image of African Americans. I wanted to be able to actually see a face not a water color.I thought the use of Girl Pie was such a wonderful endurement that should make all little girls feel loved and cherished. I read this book to my 13 month old grandaughter all the time
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Summary: Great Bedtime Read!
Review: My daughter (18 mos. old) loves this story! We read it every night before she goes to sleep, at her request. I often use the text to play with her hair as we read, which she also seems to enjoy enough that now all I have to do is recite the book from memory to get her to sit still long enough to put in pig tails. I really like that each of the illustrations has a different skin tone- it's an important detail that could have been easily overlooked by a less inspired artist.
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Summary: Great Bedtime Read!
Review: My daughter (18 mos. old) loves this story! We read it every night before she goes to sleep, at her request. I often use the text to play with her hair as we read, which she also seems to enjoy enough that now all I have to do is recite the book from memory to get her to sit still long enough to put in pig tails. I really like that each of the illustrations has a different skin tone- it's an important detail that could have been easily overlooked by a less inspired artist.
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Summary: Fabulous pictures; get the oversized board book!
Review: My one-year-old son LOVES this book. He hasn't grown into the words quite yet, but he's fascinated by the pictures.The board book is especially good. It's much bigger than many board books, and my son can pull it out and turn back and forth among the pages on his own. He'll open it to a page and just stare at it for a few minutes, touching the pictures, then pull it open to another random page. I think it's important for white kids to have books that don't just show them more white kids... and this one has glorious pictures. Lots of bold iamges on spacsious pages, visually very interesting for a baby. I can't wait until he's old enough to sit still for having it read to him, but for now he's so excited that he can do it on his own with this book, he's too impatient to let me turn the pages. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Fabulous pictures; get the oversized board book!
Review: My one-year-old son LOVES this book. He hasn't grown into the words quite yet, but he's fascinated by the pictures. The board book is especially good. It's much bigger than many board books, and my son can pull it out and turn back and forth among the pages on his own. He'll open it to a page and just stare at it for a few minutes, touching the pictures, then pull it open to another random page. I think it's important for white kids to have books that don't just show them more white kids... and this one has glorious pictures. Lots of bold iamges on spacsious pages, visually very interesting for a baby. I can't wait until he's old enough to sit still for having it read to him, but for now he's so excited that he can do it on his own with this book, he's too impatient to let me turn the pages. Highly recommended.
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Summary: spunky words and illustrations revel in blackness
Review: this book is a must have the illustrations are **absolutly beautiful**. they accentuate the happy playfulness of the book and are so well done that they can appeal to adults and children alike. the book is a nice break from the usual children's book roles of african-american characters. here blackness is not defined by its relationships to other races, but just by its beauty. it is simply a really fun book to read aloud to kids.
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