I Love My Hair!

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It was so sweet that she could identify with the Afro American girl’s hair grooming regime and share in the pain of getting those tangles out. Print pictures of all students and have them each use supplies to make different hair on themselves. Well, she thinks she’s reading but in fact she’s repeating what she remembers and filling in the blanks with her interpretation of the illustrations.

Every night before she goes to bed, Keyana sits down between her mother's knees to have her hair combed. Lewis's (previously paired with Kurtz for Fire on the Mountain) luminous watercolors light up this warm tale of family ties and the tug of homelands left behind. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Her hair and hair styles made her confident about who she was and helped her learn about the important connections of cultural history through hairstyles. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.I have seen in my classroom how challenging it can be for students that don’t have Black hair to understand what it is like to style it. Howard (Chita's Christmas Tree) plucks fruit from her family tree for this stellar story of an African-American girl determined to get an education just like her brothers. As an educator, this book can be used to discuss geography, culture, identity, environments, and freedom.

The Love My Hair salon offers a modern, friendly, and fresh interior, newly renovated from the old Post Office in 2023. I love these two books because both can teach our little brown girls to appreciate their hair and not be ashamed of it. Based on a true story set during Reconstruction, an African-American girl is determined to get an education just like her brothers, despite the protests of her family.The Times They Used to Be by Lucille Clifton, originally published in 1974, portrays life in the summer of 1948 for 12-year-old Sooky and her family. But the style also has historical importance, for, as her teacher tells her, ""wearing an Afro was a way. When she cries because it hurts, her sympathetic mother tells her how lucky she is to have such beautiful hair. has been a staple in African-American picture books for over 20 years, and now has a fresh, updated cover that shines on the shelves!