Twelve Dinging Doorbells
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A cumulative all-holiday carol packed to the brim with family, food, love, and Black joy, especially perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, graduations, and all family celebrations.
Every holiday, aunties, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and neighbors come over to eat, sing, and celebrate life. But all our main character can think about is the sweet potato pie Granny makes just for her. As tables fill with baked macaroni and cheese, chitlins, and other sides a-steaming, she and Granny move the pie to keep it intact. The task becomes tricker as the room grows with dancing and card games and pie cravings. Just when all seems lost and there’s no more pie, Granny pulls out a sweet surprise.
Written to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” Twelve Dinging Doorbells is exuberant. Author Tameka Fryer Brown’s cumulative rhyme is impossible to resist, and the humorous details in Ebony Glenn’s cut-paper collage will welcome readers to this party again and again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Revamping "The 12 Days of Christmas" to sweetly bustling effect, Fryer Brown pens a lively refrain recounting a Black family gathering's doorbell dings, each of which heralds the arrival of more relatives and dishes: "two selfie queens... three posh sibs... four pounds of chitlins... BAKED MACARONI AND CHEEEEEESE!" In Glenn's citrus-toned illustrations, the child narrator, who sports a magenta dress and green hairbow, regards the growing crowd while awaiting "a sweet potato pie just for me!" As the home becomes increasingly jam-packed and ever more festive ("six toddlers squealing... seven brothers repping... eight players yelling... nine women whisp'ring..."), even the promised sweet potato pie seems imperiled—until a beloved elder comes through. It's a lovingly chaotic portrayal with a pleasingly ample feel. Ages 4–8.
