Overview

Be bold. Be fearless. BE YOU. M is for Melanin is an empowering alphabet book that teaches kids their ABC and celebrates black children. Each letter of the alphabet contains affirming, black-positive messages, from E is for Empowerment, to L is for Lead to W is for Worthy. This joyful book, written and illustrated by Tiffany Rose, teaches children their ABC and encourages all kids to love the skin they're in. M is for Melanin shining in every inch of your skin. Every shade, every hue. All beautiful and unique.

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9781529062496

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Rose's A-Z affirmation of black children sings with inclusivity and zest. Alongside letters presented in different bold design - the A for 'afro' is studded with picks, combs, and brushes - language works to inspire confidence and pride: 'Be you. Love you. Always. All ways,' 'Acknowledge your majesty and act accordingly.' References to black leaders - Obama ('Our first black president') and Malcolm X ('Activist. Leader. Revolutionary') - occur alongside calls for children to define and be themselves, and to 'SPEAK OUT for what is right./SPEAK UP when others are silent.' Loose, joyful illustrations feature groups of children with a variety of skin tones and hair colors as figures full of verve dance, play, and create, mirroring the note at the end: 'No matter your hue or shade. This is for you.' A necessary, uplifting volume that celebrates 'black girl magic' and 'black boy joy'. * Publishers Weekly * 'Melanated' children get an ABC book to make them proud in Rose's colorful debut...Each large letter is itself a work of art, filled with patterns, colors, and themes that frequently directly relate to the word represented. Children of various hues populate each page, pictured at about one-third the size of the letters, enacting the word in some way. They sing, they dance, they march, they wear crowns, they pretend, they dream, they smile at their reflections in the mirror. A few famous names are featured - Obama for O, and Malcolm X for X. The white space is splattered with what looks like watercolor paints, in different colors on each spread. Each child pictured is unique, with all sorts of hairstyles and hair colors and skin tones that range from the deepest black to albino and everything in between, including several with vitiligo. Contagiously upbeat, joyful, and positive, this artistic alphabet book is also a series of affirmations for young black children, who will beg to read it again and again. From 'Empowerment' to 'Worthy,' 'Genuine' to 'You,' there are more than 26 reasons to cherish this book. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *

""Contagiously upbeat, joyful, and positive, this artistic alphabet book is also a series of affirmations for young black children, who will beg to read it again and again.” * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review * “Rose’s A–Z affirmation of black children sings with inclusivity and zest . . . A necessary, uplifting volume that celebrates ‘black girl magic’ and ‘black boy joy’.” * Publishers Weekly *

Author Information

Tiffany Rose is a left-handed illustrator and author. She is currently living and working in Georgia in the USA. She's a lover of coffee, wanderlust, massive curly Afros, and children being their imaginative, quirky, free selves. She is a full-time teacher, part-time author-illustrator, and world traveler. Rose remembers what it was like as a brown child not seeing herself reflected in the books and characters she loved so dearly and has been inspired to create art and meaningful stories so that underrepresented children can see themselves in books. Pencil in hand, she's changing that percentage one illustration at a time.

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