Mama’s Home by Shay Youngblood and Lo Harris - ESSENTIAL

Mama’s Home by Shay Youngblood, illustrated by Lo Harris. PICTURE BOOK. Make Me A World, (Penguin Random House) 2022. $19. 9780593180228

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL – ESSENTIAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Our young Black protagonist shares with the reader the community that helps raise her when her mother has to be someplace else. A celebration of food, language, and culture that binds people together into a family, blood or otherwise.

I loved this picture book. I loved the bright, bold illustrations. I loved the message about found families and the wide variety of caregivers in the little girl’s life. I loved how the author and illustrator were able to create a vivid, authentic, relevant world between the pages of this book.

Kiera, BookswithBeddes