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Emily Joof says she wrote MANGOES AND MONKEYBREAD because "We want African diasporan culture, colors, stories, to be part of that journey of discovery for all children." Joof is of Gambian and Malian descent. Currently she is married and living in Stockholm, Sweden with two brilliant children, Ella (6) and Louis ( 3).
Joof says "the inspiration for her story started one spring after a wonderful trip to The Gambia, filled with amazing moments with my children's grandparents, my kids asked for a bedtime story that had mangoes in it. Ella wanted to see the ‘spikey fruit’ she had eaten from grandma’s tree. She wanted to see the frozen green ditakh, that had been ordered just for her. So I started her search again and realized there wasn’t a single children’s book out there, that showed some of the fruits native to West Africa that I myself had eaten pretty much every day when I was their age. I compiled our memories and discussions and Mangoes & Monkeybread was born. I realized there must be generations of children from the West African diaspora who couldn’t find themselves in the narratives available.
Continue reading her full interview at Readers Inspired-The African Picture Books Blog/ https://www.readersinspired.com/blog/emily…
Joof says "the inspiration for her story started one spring after a wonderful trip to The Gambia, filled with amazing moments with my children's grandparents, my kids asked for a bedtime story that had mangoes in it. Ella wanted to see the ‘spikey fruit’ she had eaten from grandma’s tree. She wanted to see the frozen green ditakh, that had been ordered just for her. So I started her search again and realized there wasn’t a single children’s book out there, that showed some of the fruits native to West Africa that I myself had eaten pretty much every day when I was their age. I compiled our memories and discussions and Mangoes & Monkeybread was born. I realized there must be generations of children from the West African diaspora who couldn’t find themselves in the narratives available.
Continue reading her full interview at Readers Inspired-The African Picture Books Blog/ https://www.readersinspired.com/blog/emily…
Rich history, but who knew? We"re reading - The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. On April 10, 1734, a fire ripped through Montréal, destroying forty-six buildings, including the famed hospital/convent L'Hôtel Dieu. Marie-Joseph Angélique, the slave woman accused of starting the fire, was tried in court and condemned to death. Only under the pressure of la question extraordinaire—a hideous torture that shattered the bones in her legs—did she confess to arson. Executed by hanging, Angélique entered Canada's history books as a criminal, but her trial
offered the unique chance to tell her life story—one that would otherwise have gone unrecorded and unheard.
Afua Cooper—writer, historian, and poet—brings to life a little-known chapter in Canadian history brilliantly to life with this narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her bondage. In a dramatic retelling of Angélique’s story, Cooper sheds new light on what might have compelled a young woman to commit such a crime. At the same time, she demolishes the myth of Canada as a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad, revealing a damning centuries-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery.
This is an important, wide-ranging history focusing on a slave woman and the context of life in colonial Montreal, slavery in Canada and the international Atlanta Slave Trade.
Read more:
- https://ugapress.org/book/9780820329406/the-hanging-of-angelique/
- http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Cooper/Hanging-of-Angelique.htm
- https://mdbrady.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/the-hanging-of-angelique-by-afua-cooper/
offered the unique chance to tell her life story—one that would otherwise have gone unrecorded and unheard.
Afua Cooper—writer, historian, and poet—brings to life a little-known chapter in Canadian history brilliantly to life with this narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her bondage. In a dramatic retelling of Angélique’s story, Cooper sheds new light on what might have compelled a young woman to commit such a crime. At the same time, she demolishes the myth of Canada as a haven at the end of the Underground Railroad, revealing a damning centuries-old record of legally and culturally endorsed slavery.
This is an important, wide-ranging history focusing on a slave woman and the context of life in colonial Montreal, slavery in Canada and the international Atlanta Slave Trade.
Read more:
- https://ugapress.org/book/9780820329406/the-hanging-of-angelique/
- http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Cooper/Hanging-of-Angelique.htm
- https://mdbrady.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/the-hanging-of-angelique-by-afua-cooper/
New Arrival for Young Readers
In MOMMY'S KHIMAR - A young Muslim girl spends a busy day wrapped up in her mother’s colorful headscarf in this sweet and fanciful picture book from debut author and illustrator Jamilah Tompkins-Bigelow and Ebony Glenn.
WHEREVER YOU GO invites young readers to join an adventurous rabbit and his animal friends as they journey over steep mountain peaks, through bustling cityscapes, and down long, winding roads to discover the magical worlds that await them just outside their doors.
In CITY SHAPES, Diana Murray's playful and poetic verse encourages readers to look for shapes everywhere, noticing the hidden details in even the simplest of scenes around them every day. Collectively these are great reads for young book lovers.
WHEREVER YOU GO invites young readers to join an adventurous rabbit and his animal friends as they journey over steep mountain peaks, through bustling cityscapes, and down long, winding roads to discover the magical worlds that await them just outside their doors.
In CITY SHAPES, Diana Murray's playful and poetic verse encourages readers to look for shapes everywhere, noticing the hidden details in even the simplest of scenes around them every day. Collectively these are great reads for young book lovers.
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