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In the “call and response” style of African American story and song, Nappy Hair presents a character whose family helps her appreciate her curly, “nappy” hair and take pride in her African heritage.
1 sty 2001 · Nappy Hair is a grandfather telling the story of his granddaughter's nappy hair. It celebrates her curls and the history of her hair. It's unapologetically black, but it obviously crosses cultures, as this curly haired adult saw herself if the granddaughter.
Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American "call and response" tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illustrations by Joe Cepeda.
The story is about a little girl named Brenda who has hair that is always "knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair." Throughout the story her family makes describes her hair in a funny way but at the same time enjoys the beauty and meaning of African American hair and the way God intent's the hair to be.
23 sie 2014 · Carolivia Herron’s Nappy Hair tells the story of Brenda, a dark-skinned girl with a massive bush of kinky, untamed hair towering above her slender frame. The true protagonist in this story is Brenda’s hair, which takes on a vivacious life of its own as Brenda’s elder, Uncle Mordecai, shares with the rest of the family….
Nappy Hair. Carolivia Herron. Random House Children's Books, 1999 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages. Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair...
1 sty 1997 · Uncle Mordecai calls out the story of Brenda's hair—the nappiest hair in the world—at the family picnic, while everyone else chimes in with affirmations: ``Yep,'' ``You said it,'' and ``Ain't it the truth.''
