Mama's Home

A gorgeously illustrated picture book that is a powerful love letter to chosen families and the village that raises us. A young girl basks in the love of her community--which includes not only her mother but the many different women who make up her world.\nHome can be a blue house with white trim you share with your mama. But it can be bigger than that, with lots of Big Mamas to take care of you when your mom works—different houses for every day of the week. Mondays mean Nurse Louella and bike riding. Tuesdays mean eating fufu with your fingers with Miss Zikora. And Wednesdays . . . well, no matter where you are, as long as you are with your Big Mamas, you are home.\nA girl basks in the warmth of her community in this powerful love letter to chosen families and the villages that raise us, from Pushcart Prize-winning author Shay Youngblood and popular illustrator Lo Harris.\nFrom School Library Journal\nPreS-Gr 3—This lively picture book will have readers considering all the people that influence their lives, every day. The main character, a Black girl, spends every day of the week with a different loving member of her extended chosen family, each of them showing her the diversity of cultures within the Black community as well as different job opportunities. Well-crafted spreads showcase a different food and a different job that the family members are sharing with one another and the community. The main character appreciates all of them, but is happy to be home with her own mama, tucked in her own bed, at the end of the week. In every home she was loved and welcomed; in every setting she was cherished and yet relishes her own place with Mama best. The stylized art, featuring a variety of skin tones, hair styles, body types, family households, and definitions of "home," is warm and cheerful, adding to the joy of the story. VERDICT This would be a wonderful addition to an elementary library seeking books to show the diversity of African American culture as well as all the ways there are to be family.—Debbie Tanner

Children's Books

Youngblood, Shay

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Make Me a World

A gorgeously illustrated picture book that is a powerful love letter to chosen families and the village that raises us. A young girl basks in the love of her community--which includes not only her mother but the many different women who make up her world. Home can be&nbsp;a blue house with white trim you share with your mama. But it can be bigger than that, with lots of Big Mamas to take care of you when your mom works--different houses for every day of the week.&nbsp;Mondays mean Nurse Louella and bike riding.&nbsp;Tuesdays mean eating fufu with your fingers with Miss Zikora.&nbsp;And Wednesdays . . . well, no matter where you are, as long as you are with your Big Mamas, you are home. A girl basks in the warmth of her community in this powerful love letter to chosen families and the villages that raise us,&nbsp;from Pushcart Prize-winning author Shay Youngblood and popular illustrator Lo Harris.

A beautifully illustrated children's book that celebrates all the family-biological and chosen alike-who keep us safe and teach us to dream In A Family Prayer, acclaimed novelist Shay Youngblood brings to life the prayer of a little brown girl who finds joy in asking God to keep her family safe. Young readers will celebrate every aunty, cousin, and grandmother in their life. But more than just her biological relatives, each family member is a maternal or paternal archetype, someone in her community who represents the title of mother, father, aunty, and the like. My sister is a blessing She keeps my secrets Braids my hair And helps me find my way Sisters are a blessing Keep them safe from harm My Aunty is a blessing She sings sweet songs Rocks me to sleep and whispers stories in the dark Aunties are a blessing Keep them safe from harm A Family Prayer champions the age-old wisdom that raising a family takes a village-and that the love of a community runs soul deep.

A Family Prayer

Literature & Fiction

Convergent Children's

Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery: A Play

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

Talking Bones

dramatic publishing Company

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do., When Grace hears that her class is putting on a production of "Peter Pan" she immediately decides she wants to play Peter. Some of her classmates tell her this is impossible, not only because she is a girl but also because she is African American. With the encouragement of her parents and grandmother, Grace prepares for her audition. Will she win the role?

Amazing Grace--A Play in One Act

HOFFMAN, MARY

Dramatic Pub. Co.

The Big Mama Stories

Spunky stories set in the Black small-town early 60s South. 1990 Pushcart Anthology selection.

United States

Firebrand Books

Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology or Paris as a city that has called out to African-American artists. Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Josephine Baker before her, Youngblood's heroine leaves her home, in the American South, nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. She experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations - artist's model, poet's helper, au pair, teacher, thief, and lover - to keep body and soul together, to stay afloat, heal the wounds of her broken heart, discover her sexual self, and, finally, to wrestle her dreams of becoming a writer into reality.

Black Girl in Paris

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Big Mama Stories is set in the South in the 1960's. Daughter, whose mother died when she was very young, is raised by the women in her community, some blood related, some not. At the age of twelve, she begins her journey to womanhood, guided by these diverse, non-traditional, older Black women. Daughter reflects on her vivid memories of growing up, recalling rituals, faith healings, storytelling and lessons she learned about survival.

Big Mama Stories

Genre Fiction

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Mama's Home

Mama's Home

A Family Prayer

Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery: A Play

Talking Bones

Amazing Grace--A Play in One Act

The Big Mama Stories

The Big Mama Stories

Black Girl in Paris

Big Mama Stories