Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children

Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black ChildrenWhen happy things come to you, hold them close and never let go. From celebrated author of Your Name Is a Song Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow, fine artist Patrick Dougher, and photographer Jamel Shabazz, Hold Them Close is a picture book celebration of Black past, present, and futurea joyful love letter to Black children. As affirming as it is touching and warm, Hold Them Close encourages young children to hold close their joy, the words of their ancestors

and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption

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as well as pop culture aficionados and lovers of contemporary cartography and illustrations

She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her

bringing the heart-wrenching past to life

he quickly adapted to a life of crime

humans have lived in exile on the island of Mospheira

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Randal Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice

Placing these sources in theoretical dialogue with each other the author proposes "critical autobiographic reflection" as a tool for locating cultural