YA POETRY: Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson & with fine art by Ekua Holmes
ABOUT THE BOOK
A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.
In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.
Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power.
Black Girl You Are Atlas encourages young readers to embrace their future with a strong sense of sisterhood and celebration. With full-color art by celebrated fine artist Ekua Holmes throughout, this collection offers guidance and is a gift for anyone who reads it.
REVIEW
Opening with a stunning poem about where she's from, Renee Watson presents readers with a glimpse into her life growing up as a black girl in the Pacific Northwest. She shares both the good and back in her experience. Some poems are heartbreaking, others truly inspiring and uplifting. Some of the poems are short, only a few lines, but pack a punch. Others are like a journey on a river with calm spots and rough spots. Holmes art beautifully complements the beauty of Watson's poems. While aimed specifically at black girls and the challenges they face there is much here that girls of any race can be inspired by, courage and resilience, love and hope. heartbreak and heartache, all shine through the truly remarkable combination of words and pictures. This book is a classic in the making.
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