Mamas Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books by the author of Chef Edna, Melvina Noel, and illustrator Daria Peoples. Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out books. Not just any booksbooks about Black people. In the 1960s, such stories were not taught in schools. If there were any books at all, they were often shelved in a separate part of the library. But that didnt stop two sisters from making a beeline to that very spot and gathering up the librarys limit ten books each. Back at home, the three retreat to their favorite reading spots, and the older sister is soon running to freedom alongside Harriet Tubman reading poetry with Paul Lawrence Dunbar listening to Martin Luther King say, I have a dream. In these books, the older sister sees the struggles, the strength, the love, the hope, and the happiness of people who look like her and never gave up on their dreams. She sees herself.

Binding: Hardback;32 pages; Publisher: Abrams and Chronicle Books IWUK; Classification: YFB; Weight: 556 g; Dimensions: 238 x 287 x 11

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