Homemade Love

bell hooks

$7.99

Publication Date: November 14th, 2017

Publisher:

Disney Hyperion

ISBN:

9781484799352

Pages:

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About the Author

A world-renowned poet, cultural critic, feminist theorist, and intellectual, bell hooks is a distinguished author and professor of English. In addition to Homemade Love, she has written several acclaimed children's books including Be Boy Buzz, Skin Again, Happy to Be Nappy, and Grump Groan Growl, all illustrated by Chris Raschka.

Shane W. Evans is the illustrator of many picturebooks for children, including The Way a Door Closes, a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner; Underground, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; My Brother Charlie, a NAACP Image Award winner; We March and Lillian's Right to Vote, Jane Addams Award winners;as well as Chocolate Me! and Mixed Me! He has exhibited his art in West Africa and Paris, as well as in Chicago, New York, and other major U.S. cities. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he runs Dream Studio, a community art space. Find out more online at www.dreamstudio777.com.

Praise for Homemade Love

PRAISE FOR HOMEMADE LOVE

"Renowned writer and feminist theorist hooks gets Girlpie's voice exactly right, and puts her finger on just what every child is most concerned with: will my parents love me even when I'm bad? . . . This joyful, loving African-American family is a model for all families to emulate."—Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR HOMEMADE LOVE

"The rhythm of the words, the smoothness of the text, and the positive message all combine to make a lovely read-aloud."—School Library Journal

PRAISE FOR HOMEMADE LOVE

"[Evans's] cheerful, splashy paintings display an abundance of affection between the girl and her parents."—Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR GRUMP GROAN GROWL

*"[F]ew picture books can match the visceral punch of this one's opening, which does for bad moods what Sendak's wild rumpus sequence did for bedtime naughtiness."—Booklist, starred Review

PRAISE FOR GRUMP GROAN GROWL

*"Hooks and Raschka (Be Boy Buzz; Skin Again) charge this temperamental book with few words but ample emotion."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

PRAISE FOR GRUMP GROAN GROWL

"This deceptively simple picture book by masters of that form encourages readers to overcome their funks by putting them inside' and letting them slide.' . . . [I]ts power goes straight to the viscera in a way that will resonate for a long, long time."—Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR SKIN AGAIN

"Whether shared with a group or one-on-one, this is an excellent vehicle to initiate discussion on a sensitive and perennially important subject."—School Library Journal

PRAISE FOR SKIN AGAIN

"The art vividly celebrates history and the realism, fun, and fantasy inside each one of us--the dreams of all the way I imagine me.' This is about skin color, but it's also about diversity within a group and within one child, and about finding the story inside the stereotype."—Booklist