Book Descriptions
for Hair by Brook Sitgraves Turner and Archaa Shrivastav
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A trio of board books celebrates a remarkable range of human diversity with joyful affirmation through rhyming texts and clear color photographs. In Families, groupings of all sorts are present, crossing age, race, gender, sexuality, and body type. Photos of adults snuggling their children accompany the words "All our love piled in a heap / A comfy place for me to sleep." Hair on bodies and heads (or no hair at all!) across shades, types, and styles, is equally celebrated in Hair. Mobility is the focus of On-the-Go, with photographs of mostly young people jumping, climbing, biking, riding, walking, and running, some making use of prosthetics, wheelchairs, crutches, and other mobility support. "I might need a little help / or I get there by myself. / Look at all the ways / I can go!" (Ages 1-4)
CCBC Choices 2021. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Beautiful photos of real-life families showcase all the wonderful forms of hair, while poetic text builds both vocabulary and empathy. HAIR helps families and educators discuss race, celebrate difference, and stand against racism at home and in the classroom. Created with 0-5-year-olds in mind.Part of the We Are Little Feminists series - the identity-affirming board book series developed to raise intersectional feminists. Created to help families and educators discuss diversity through everyday topics, We Are Little Feminists helps children stand against racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.