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Bros
(A Rhyming Picture Book Celebrating Black Boy Joy, Friendship, and Imagination - For Kids Ages 4-8)
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A celebration of childhood from an award-winning author, this upbeat day-in-the-life of a bunch of friends was inspired by the #BlackBoyJoy meme that spurred a movement. From sunrise to sunset, a group of young Black boys joyously spend the day together as they live their best...
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"From sunrise to sunset, a group of young Black boys joyously spend the day together as they live their best lives freely in their community. With confidence and a touch of swag, these friends do everything with one another: build a time machine, tend to the community garden, roleplay in the park, read, take a group selfie, and play basketball"--
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A celebration of childhood from an award-winning author, this upbeat day-in-the-life of a bunch of friends was inspired by the #BlackBoyJoy meme that spurred a movement.
From sunrise to sunset, a group of young Black boys joyously spend the day together as they live their best lives freely in their community. With confidence and a touch of swag, these friends do everything with one another: build a time machine, tend to the community garden, roleplay in the park, read, take a group selfie, and play basketball.
With simple, spare text from celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and colourful, playful art from Reggie Brown capturing the pleasures of boyhood and friendship, Bros affirms the truth that Black boys deserve and are worthy of a childhood full of joy and free of risk, just as much as anyone.
Timely and buoyant, it’s a story sure to be enjoyed by anyone who knows what it is to be surrounded by friends with a day of adventure ahead of you.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781536220414
Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 March 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Candlewick Press,U.S.
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Reggie Brown
- Illustrated by Reggie Brown
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 238.0mm
Height: 276.0mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2025 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner. She was also named the 2019 Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Newbery Honor Book Box: Henry Box Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library and Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time, both illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Maryland.
Reggie Brown is the illustrator of several books for children, including Tacko Fall: To New Heights by Tacko Fall and Justin Haynes, the New York Times best-selling Who Are Your People? by Bakari Sellers, the Magnificent Makers series by Theanne Griffith, and Baseball Baby and Soccer Baby by Laura Gehl. He lives in San Diego.
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