A joyfully poetic board book that delivers an ode to African American girls and the beauty of their curls.
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About the Author
Ruth Forman is the author of award-winning poetry collections We Are the Young Magicians and Renaissance and children's books Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon and Curls. She is the recipient of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, among others. She has presented in forums such as the United Nations, the PBS series The United States of Poetry, and National Public Radio. Ruth is a former teacher of creative writing with the University of Southern California and June Jordan's Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and is a longtime faculty member with the VONA writing program.
