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By Carole Boston Weatherford
illustrated by Reggie Brown
Candlewick Press, 2024.
Carole Boston Weatherford, children’s book author and poet, regularly pulls stories from the past to demonstrate traditions, and struggles. In her newest book, she gives us a fun celebration of a particular group of friends living a very busy life. From sunrise to sunset, these boys joyously spend the day together as they live their best lives freely in their community. They show us confidence, a touch of swag, and wisdom. These devoted friends do everything together, for example: build a time machine, read, take a group selfie, work in the community garden, and play basketball, while showing the readers about caring, leading, crying, and glowing. The language is full of action words.
With rhyming, spare text and colorful, vibrant illustrations from artist, Reggie Brown, we all witness the pleasures of young friendship. You would want to be part of this posse. #BlackBoyJoy
Carole Boston Weatherford is an accomplished author and shines in her 2020 award winning book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. She has authored 70 plus books. Her books have won two NAACP Image Awards and nine American Library Association Youth Media Awards, including a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and four Caldecott Honors. She lives in North Carolina.
Reggie Brown is the illustrator of several books for children, including the New York Times best-selling Who Are Your People? by Bakari Sellers, the Magnificent Makers series by Theanne Griffith, also Baseball Baby and Soccer Baby by Laura Gehl. He lives in San Diego.
Submitted by Karen Kosko
