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My powerful hair

After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.

Main Author: Lindstrom, Carole, 1964- (Author)
Other Authors: Littlebird, Steph (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2023.
Subjects:
Hair > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Juvenile fiction.
Identity > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Summary: After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience: Ages 4 to 8.
ISBN: 9781419759437
1419759434
Author Notes: Carole Lindstrom is a New York Times- bestselling and award-winning author of literature for young people, including of the Caldecott Medal-winning We Are Water Protectors . She is Anishinaabe/Métis and an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She is honored to write books that allow her to shine a light on her beautiful people and their strength and resilience. Her tribal homelands are in Belcourt, North Dakota, but she was born and raised in Nebraska and currently makes her home in Maryland. Steph Littlebird is an Indigenous artist, writer, curator, and a member of Oregon's Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Her work combines traditional aesthetics with contemporary materials and subject matter to forge connections between our collective past and imminent future. Littlebird was the 2020-2021 fellow of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Littlebird received national recognition as curator of This IS Kalapuyan Land (2020) an exhibition at the Five Oaks Museum in Portland, which was featured by ArtNews and PBS NewsHour. She currently lives in Las Vegas.

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