The author does an amazing job at integrating playful rhyming and great metaphors to show the beauty of Black textured hair. The book is a celebration of Black girls’ hair and the many ways they wear it. This book shows children that the road toward their dreams will have barriers, but with the powerful tool of resilience dreams can be accomplished.īig Hair, Don’t Care by Crystal Swain-Bates is a fun and empowering read for girls of Africana descent. He decides to pay for his niece’s medical bill and delay his dream. Through his travels he earns enough money to open his dream barbershop, but his beloved niece falls ill. His dream was to one day open up his own barbershop. Uncle Jed was a traveling barber who had a beloved niece. Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell is a book about familial sacrifice and dreams.

In sum, I hope these reviews inspire the young girls in your life to strive toward greatness!!!! Lastly, the books in this article will make the young women in your life say, “I am a loved princess, I am a smart girl, I am a hero, and I am a creator and innovator!” These books are organized in themes that allow Black girls to look in the mirror after reading them and speak words that affirm their humanity and individual genius. For Black girls, these books offer them an opportunity to identify with characters who look just like them. These stories offer children of different races and genders the chance to develop an in-depth appreciation of Black women and girls. Reading these books is extremely important because they show Black women and girls from multiple vantage points. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to review some interesting books featuring Black females as the protagonist characters. When I saw this picture, I thought it is a dramatic illustration of the importance of little Black girls seeing themselves in children’s books! This picture of Michelle Obama is telling this girl that she can be anything she wants to be!

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