The Tradition Cover:Paperback rhyming story encourages young girls

rhyming story encourages young girls to be self-confident and celebrates the many shapes and forms Black hair can take

notes from the author and illustrator

Kidnapped from Africa as a child

and Beatlemania

The Tradition Cover:Paperback rhyming story encourages young girlsWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book Review One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021 "By some literary magicno, it's precision, and honestyBrown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the most intimate and personal stakes."Craig Morgan Teicher, 'I Reject Walls': A 2019 Poetry Preview for NPR A