Skin Again - Hardcover

Hooks, Bell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316412937 ISBN 13: 9780316412933

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers US, 2022

Synopsis

From legendary author and critic bell hooks and multi-Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka comes a way to talk about race and identity that will appeal to parents of the youngest readers―in board book edition.The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide.Race matters, but what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other the treasures stored down deep. Learning to cherish those treasures, to be all we imagine ourselves to be, makes us free.This award-winning book celebrates all that makes us unique and different and offers a strong, timely and timeless message of loving yourself and others.Don’t miss these other books by bell hooks and Chris Raschka!Be Boy BuzzHappy to Be NappyGrump Groan Growl

About this title

About the Author

bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952, was an American author. When she died in 2021, hooks left behind a lifetime of thought that was decades ahead of its time, including the New York Times bestseller All About Love: New Visions. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies, hooks taught at USC, Yale and Berea College in Kentucky, where the bell hooks centre was established to honour her work. Winner of the American Book Award in 1991 for Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, a 2000 nominee for the NAACP's Image Award, a 2018 inductee into Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, and one of Time's 100 Women of the Year in 2020, hooks left her mark in every field she entered.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers US
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316412937
• ISBN 13: 9780316412933
• Binding: Board book
• Illustrator: Raschka Chris
• Number of pages: 26