I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl
I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl
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Annotation: Mia considers the qualities that make her and her other African American friends, who all have different skin tones, pretty.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #128099
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2013
Edition Date: 2013 Release Date: 10/07/13
Illustrator: Parod, Claire Armstrong,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 0-615-78551-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-615-78551-6
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2013939365
Dimensions: 27 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
School Library Journal (Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 CDT 2013)

PreS-Gr 2 This didactic take on black self-esteem and sisterly love falls flat despite its best intentions. In the morning, Mia looks in the mirror, twirls around, and yells: "I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl." Then off she goes to walk to school with her friends. In limping rhyme she mentions the color of each of them, describing how they play together and support one another. She says: "We come in all shapes and sizes&30;And like a special rainbow we're all different shades of brown." Then she adds that they are polite, because "'pretty' also means 'to show good manners'" and "spread love around." Back home, when she's getting ready for bed, she twirls in front of the mirror and calls out her mantra. There is no story here. The rhyme and meter are unsteady at best, and unsuccessful at worst. The illustrations are appealing enough in a cartoon, commercial way. The girls have oversize heads and large eyes; one of them is chubby and wears glasses. They wear brightly colored clothing, and there is extensive use of spot art, which gives the characters and story a real sense of motion. Karen Katz's The Colors of Us (Holt, 1999), Shelley Rotner and Sheila Kelly's Shades of People (Holiday House, 2009), or Karen Beaumont's I Like Myself (Houghton Harcourt, 2004) deliver the message more successfully. Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT

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School Library Journal (Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 CDT 2013)
Reading Level: 1.0
Interest Level: K-3

I'M A PRETTY LITTLE BLACK GIRL! introduces adorable Mia, who wakes with her hair just-a-going every which-a-ways! With her abundant energy and joy leading the way, readers follow Mia as she plays with her friends who are all shades, shapes and sizes. There's tall Kia, Keisha the reader, Charlotte her best friend, Dina Rose-Marie the artist, Imani the dancer, Anna who loves sports, Ruby the singer, and honey-haired Tracy. Mia finds that Pretty is within herself and her friends, and being pretty is way beyond what the mirror shows.


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