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Lawrence, Patrice

Our Story Starts in Africa

40 pp. | Magic Cat | August, 2022 | Trade ISBN 9781913520588 $18.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Jeanette Gonzales. When a young girl named Paloma makes a trip with her mother to visit their family in Trinidad, she struggles to bridge the differences between herself and her cousins. But when her warm tante Janet tells her about their family’s ancestral history, tracing the ennobling story of the Caribbean’s African past, including Black people’s ongoing attempts to reunify after colonial partitions, Paloma feels reassured that fragile familial bonds can be strengthened with time and effort. With a rich, full-bodied text and inviting digital illustrations that incorporate many authentic, Afrocentric cultural details, this is an important story for instilling diasporic confidence, consciousness, and connection in Black Caribbean children, and for teaching all readers about the achievements of precolonial African civilization.
Reviewer: Summer Edward

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