Cheryl Willis Hudson

Put on your hard hat and step inside the construction zone: you're invited on a virtual tour of a building in progress.

What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art, poetry, and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice and comfort to young activists.

Photographs and simple, rhyming text present different things that hands can do, such as hold things, mix things, and wave goodbye.

Four lively youngsters enjoy activities on a typical day at school.

Black youngsters form themselves into letters of the alphabet.

Opportunity to see the world from a child's perspective.

Many of the selections are by African-American authors (Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton) and all of the illustrations are by African-American artists.

Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators—including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander—share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this beautiful, full-color keepsake collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed...