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I Love My Hair!

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But the style also has historical importance, for, as her teacher tells her, ""wearing an Afro was a way. But her Mama tells her how beautiful her hair is, and as she fixes Keyana's hair, she tells her stories of the past. Valentina’s best bits: She likes when the little girl describes her afro style like a globe and the illustration shows an out of space scene. Pre-School-Grade 2: A young African-American girl describes the familiar mother-daughter nightly ritual of combing the tangles out of her hair. A thoughtful folktale from Madagascar and spare, painterly watercolors affectingly cohere in this compassionate book about a boy's encounter with death.

She received her BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Woodson (If You Come Softly; I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This) lays out her resonant story like a poem, its central metaphor a fence that divides blacks from whites. I Love My Hair is the story of a young black girl who learns to find pride in her hair, even though it hurts sometimes when her mother combs it. As a child, I can remember asking my mother for a chemical relaxer which would have made my hair straight.

A modern classic, this whimsical story has been celebrating the beauty of African-American hair for over 20 years!

Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Keyana doesn't feel lucky to have such a head of hair--until Mama reminds her of all the lovely ways her wonderful hair can be fixed. The mother reminds her that her hair is part of her heritage and that she is lucky to have such hair because, she can style it anyway she desires. Keyana's, mother in the book, uses different illustrations for different hair styles such as "or I can part your hair into straight lines and plant rows of braids along your scalp, the way we plant seeds in our garden.

This book can also allow students the freedom to express why they love their hair, their eyes, their hands, and their skin. For 20 years or so, I refused to wear my hair naturally because I did not appreciate or remember my natural texture. Pictures and text reflect the expanding horizons of the child’s world as she learns to be proud of her distinctive hair and her heritage.

In Tarpley's gracefully told story, a young African American heroine celebrates her lovely head of hair as part of her heritage.

A wonderful story of acceptance for a very real important detail in the lives of young girls, their hair.

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