Daria Peoples
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
"From painting, music, and slam poetry, to engineering, protesting, and photography, a young narrator journeys through her neighborhood, encouraging readers to explore all the many ways they can express themselves."--
Author
Description
Mama's Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books by the author of Chef Edna, Melvina Noel, and illustrator Daria Peoples.
Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out books. Not just any books-books about Black people. In the 1960s, such stories were not taught in schools. If there were any books at all, they were often...