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Dreams for a daughter

A black mother describes her dreams for her newborn daughter, and her hopes for a future in which her little one will grow to cross borders and bridge boundaries, be her best self, and find love.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors:	Pinkney, J. Brian (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	A black mother describes her dreams for her newborn daughter, and her hopes for a future in which her little one will grow to cross borders and bridge boundaries, be her best self, and find love.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Audience:	Ages 4 - 8. Grades K-1.
ISBN:	9781534451988 1534451986
Author Notes:	Carole Boston Weatherford is an ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award winner, an honor given to an author or illustrator who has made a substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature. Her award-winning books include Kin , illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box , which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable , which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul , winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children's Book You Can Fly ; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square ; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement ; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom . Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com. Brian Pinkney has illustrated numerous acclaimed books for children, including Martin Rising ; In Your Hands ; On the Ball ; The Faithful Friend ; Duke Ellington ; and In the Time of the Drums . His many awards include two Caldecott Honors, a Coretta Scott King Illustration Award, four Coretta Scott King Illustration Honors, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Brian lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and frequent collaborator, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Visit him at BrianPinkney.net.