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I feel like there’s a Tracy Chapman song in there somewhere

Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas

May 12, 2022 by katie71483 4 Comments

I feel like Tracy Chapman could read Wildseed Magic by Marti Dumas and find a song or five to write about. This is an absolutely lovely novel aimed at tweens ages 10-14. It is literally about Black Girl Magic. For a novel that could very easily be compared in many ways with Harry Potter, I would recommend this one any day of the week over that series. It has a multitude of themes and all of them are handled with a deft touch. It centers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: black girl magic, Hasani, katie71483, Les Belles Demoiselles, Marti Dumas, Wildseed Magic

katie71483's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: black girl magic, Hasani, katie71483, Les Belles Demoiselles, Marti Dumas, Wildseed Magic ·
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Illustration of young African American girl dancing in a purple leotard, surrounded by large music notes

“Sylvia did reach her dream of becoming a ballerina. And it all started with one determined girl with one library book from one bookmobile.”

Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became The Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon & A. LaFaye, Illustrations by Jessica Gibson

October 27, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

We’re gonna start off today’s review by (potentially? I don’t think I’ve talked about this here before) learning a new thing about NTE: I used to be a dancer. Before my body decided that anything that required even standing was completely out of the question (so from age 3-15, basically), being a dancer was a major part of my identity. I danced five days a week – tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, & pointe. Pointe was – by far – my worst class (I had […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: #memoir, 1950s America, A Lafage, African American picture book, Ballerinas, ballet, black girl magic, cbr13bingo, Dance, Dancers, Illustrations by Jessica Gibson, Jessica Gibson, Lea Lyon, Lea Lyon & A. LaFaye, Lea Lyon & A. LaFaye, Illustrations by Jessica Gibson, Picture Books, Race, Ready to Fly, Social Justice, sports, Sylvia Townsend

NTE's CBR13 Review No:41 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: #memoir, 1950s America, A Lafage, African American picture book, Ballerinas, ballet, black girl magic, cbr13bingo, Dance, Dancers, Illustrations by Jessica Gibson, Jessica Gibson, Lea Lyon, Lea Lyon & A. LaFaye, Lea Lyon & A. LaFaye, Illustrations by Jessica Gibson, Picture Books, Race, Ready to Fly, Social Justice, sports, Sylvia Townsend ·
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Self-love out of self-loathing: Genesis Begins Again

Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

February 25, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Genesis has taken hating herself to a new level: she has a long list of reasons she can’t stand herself and she’s adding to it every day. She gets help, too: from her father, who can’t help commenting in his drunken rants on how she had to end up dark like him instead of light like her beautiful mother, to the kids at school who’ve covered every cruel name for her dark skin.  Genesis has a hard time making friends anyway. Every time she starts […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alicia D. Williams, black girl magic, Children, children's book, colorism, jazz, kid lit, middle school, Newbery Honor Book

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alicia D. Williams, black girl magic, Children, children's book, colorism, jazz, kid lit, middle school, Newbery Honor Book ·
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Black girl poetic magic

Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

December 30, 2017 by teresaelectro 1 Comment

Electric Arches is collection of poetry by Eve L. Ewing. Her poems muse on the black experience. She reveals painful moments of racism she encounters and add in handwritten font her imagined replies to the N-word. She writes odes to her musical heroes in “Appletree [on black womanhood, from and to Erykah Badu] and “On Prince”. Each poem describes how their music touched her soul. She uplifts the ordinary with her words adding a fantastical gloss of wonder. “so in this world, grease is a compliment, no […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter

teresaelectro's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter ·
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