You Are My Pride
A Love Letter from Your Motherland
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- R$ 54,90
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- R$ 54,90
Descrição da editora
In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated picture book by award-winning author and illustrator team Carole Boston Weatherford and E. B. Lewis, Mother Africa addresses her offspring of all colors in all corners of the earth, reminding us of our timeless bond.
Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children—human beings—this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity’s common roots.
Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa’s caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could and sent us into the world with confidence and love. Told in the ringing, singing language of a creation story, this book is a love letter from mother to child that honors our shared history.
Includes back matter with nonfiction information about human evolution and about the migration of Homo sapiens from Africa around the globe.
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Boston Weatherford's affectionate letter from the cradle of humankind begins, "I am the mother of all humanity,/ I have a long history and a longer memory./ Most of all, I remember you,/ my offspring of all colors/ in all corners of the earth." Continuing, the motherland (who "knew you from the first—/ when you were but a glimmer in some god's heart") narrates milestones of early humans from "the brink of your evolution" to bipedal motion and surviving the dangers of the wilderness. As final scenes show modern-day children of various skin tones running through a field, then zoom out to a view of the earth, text culminates in a final, ringing declaration: "Here is your home." Lewis wields watercolor to pristine effect in depicting vast and varied landscapes. A timeline of human evolution concludes. Ages 4–8.
