Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author Beacon Press (MA) $22 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7202-8
In this lyrical and strongly imaginative memoir, Tarpley (Testimony) calls on the voices of her family--especially her mother, Marlene, and her grandmother, Anna--in ""a search not only for who I am to become, but also for who I have been."" In the...
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator , illus. by E.B. Lewis. Little, Brown $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-52375-2
"In this gracefully told story, a young African-American heroine celebrates her lovely head of hair as part of her heritage," wrote PW. Ages 3-8. (Sept.)
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator , illus. by E.B. Lewis. Knopf $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-81053-4
Despite its lyrical text and accomplished paintings, this story about a child's dream of flying never quite takes off, partly because it carries too much historical and metaphorical freight and partly because the line between the real world in...
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-52284-7
What Natasha Anastasia Tarpley did for the mother-daughter bond in I Love My Hair! she now does for father and son in Bippity Bop Barbershop, illus. by E.B. Lewis. One full-bleed watercolor spread depicts three generations of men draped in purple
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator LB Kids $6.99 (22p) ISBN 978-0-316-52558-9
In I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, illus. by E.B. Lewis, the narrator loves the nightly ritual of her mother combing her hair (it is ""thick as a forest, soft as cotton candy, and curly as a vine winding upward, reaching the sky."" ...
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author, E. B. Lewis, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-52275-5
In Tarpley's gracefully told story, a young African American heroine celebrates her lovely head of hair as part of her heritage. Each evening, Keyana's mother lovingly combs out her tangles before bed and, when it hurts, Mama assures her that she is
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Author, Adjoa J. Burrowes, Illustrator , illus. by Adjoa J. Burrowes. Lee & Low $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58430-156-1
Tarpley (I Love My Hair!
) and Burrowes (Grandma's Purple Flowers
) deliver a love letter—to all youngsters who embrace the world of words, and to the independent booksellers who nurture their passion. Narrator Destiny, an aspiring writer...
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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, illus. by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-46154-2
Striking, imaginative photographic portraits of Black youth by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt, embellished in Photoshop, fill the pages of this picture book, which shows the figures’ unlimited potential. A mantra-esque refrain unites Tarpley’s rhyming
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