A bookseller recommends 'I Am Every Good Thing' for back to school
Throughout September, MPR News’ Ask a Bookseller will feature recommendations for children and teens to kick off the start of the school year. To start the month, Lorielle J. Hollaway of Cultured Books, a multicultural children’s bookstore in St Petersburg, Fla., recommended the brand-new picture book “I Am Every Good Thing” by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James. The picture book is filled with affirmations for black boys. “When there are so many negative stereotypes against black boys and black children, this is just a beautiful poem, almost a love letter, letting them know that they are…
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