Category - Non Fiction / Family & Relationships
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - A year ago
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Ships From - Texas
Seller Description
#hardcover#rare#exlibrary#family First printing of Caines's first picture book, about a Black child who loves hearing the story of her adoption - inscribed by the illustrator with an original drawing of a little kid's face. In the 1960s, many picture books with African American protagonists focused on aspects of characters' lives that reflected Black culture specifically, in line with the wider Black Arts Movement. The 1970s saw the mainstream development of "books that do not highlight or foreground African American culture or heritage, although they reflect the life experiences of many Black children, particularly middle-class Black children," explains Rudine Sims Bishop. Caines's work is among the best known in this trend, expanding the depiction of Black characters from major presses away from a monolithic approach and embracing the richness and variety of Black lives. An ex-library copy, as common, but much less so with an original drawing. . 7.5'' x 8.25''. Original cream glossy cloth boards. In original unclipped ($4.95) color pictorial dust jacket with (1073) code. Illustrated by Kellogg in black and white throughout. 32 pages. Inscribed by Kellogg on frontispiece: "To my friend ___ [heart] from Steven Kellogg,"