Happy To Be Nappy by Bell Hooks

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This euphoric tribute to hair might become a good discussions that started last year with the controversy over Carolivia Herron's Nappy Hair. [1]

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Summary

Happy To Be Nappy!

Happy with hair all short and strong.

Happy with locks that twist and curl.

Just all girl happy!

Happy to be nappy hair! [2]

Happy To Be Nappy could be a celebration of all the different haircuts that Black girls have. Whether long or brief, styled or not styled, there's a reason to appreciate all various types of hair.[3] This cute book is fun for all children, but focuses specifically on girls hair. You will be touched in the verve and swing of its words and pictures. Really, this one is just pure of happiness. [4]

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Pros

Dani as a verified reader gave her testimonial about this book, she said that her nephew just had to read this book with the little African-American girl on the cover! And he is quite love the art in it. Since he also has long hair like the girls he think he really related to the book despite the girls wearing dresses. He loved the rhyming text and the bright poppy colors. He chose the color blocked spread to draw with the single girl with the long rope of hair. [5]

The outlines in Happy to Be Nappy were drawn with paint. The colors used are exceptionally dynamic and lively; the color choice includes to the cheerful subject within the book. The book also uses a wide variety of colors, which feels typical of the different sorts of hair specified all through the story. Happy to Be Nappy also portrays young ladies all through the story smiling and having fun. The choice to show the youthful girls within the story as carefree was another way in which the illustrator could have been reaffirming Black girls that there's bliss to be. [6] 

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