A world-renowned cultural critic, feminist theorist, and intellectual, bell hooks is a distinguished author and professor of English. She has written several acclaimed children's books including Be Boy Buzz, Skin Again and Happy to Be Nappy, all illustrated by Chris Raschka.
Chris Raschka is the Caldecott-Award-winning illustrator of The Hello Goodbye Window and A Ball for Daisy. He also received a Caldecott Honor for Yo! Yes? and has written and illustrated numerous books for children, among them four by bell hooks. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.
"In Raschka's exuberant paintings, an unpeeled-onion motif implies
the multiplicity of stories beneath a person's visible surface, and
dancing children, with varied hues of skin and reckless swirls of
hair, suggest common interest and love. With torn paper rectangles,
Raschka establishes quilty grids on the pages, and limits his
characters in wide brushstrokes within these boxy spaces. Jazzy
dashes and daubs of earth-tone paint suggest African batik or
Aboriginal art."--Publishers Weekly
"Raschka does his usual extraordinary job of illustrating highly
abstract concepts: children of different colors -- rendered in
smudgy paints -- look at, point at, and reach out to each other,
finally clasping hands in a sort of a graphic minuet."--Kirkus
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