6/20/2023 0 Comments Islandborn by Junot Díaz![]() Obi has assigned her class to draw a picture of their home country. She suddenly finds herself floored by an unnervingly emotional dilemma: her teacher Mrs. The Pulitzer Prize-winning and MacArthur “genius” author Junot Díaz (“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” “Drown,” “This is How You Lose Her”) now offers up his joyous and wondrous children’s book, “Islandborn.” In his first foray into kiddie lit, Díaz celebrates the immigrant experience through the eyes of 6-year-old Lola. ![]() That’s the diversity of experience she says is missing from works catering to young readers. Rather, writer Denene Millner pleads for stories about the “everyday beauty of being a little human being” - everday Black children anticipating the tooth fairy, riding a school bus, searching for the dragon in their bedroom closet. ![]() Moments that have nothing to do with the civil rights movement or slavery or being the “first” in something. ![]()
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