There is a place inside of me
a space deep down inside of me
where all my feelings hide.
In this powerful, affirming poem by award-winning author Zetta Elliott, a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. Summertime is filled with joy-skateboarding and playing basketball-until his community is deeply wounded by a police shooting. As fall turns to winter and then spring, fear grows into anger, then pride and peace.
In her stunning debut, illustrator Noa Denmon articulates the depth and nuances of a child's experiences following a police shooting-through grief and protests, healing and community-with washes of color as vibrant as his words.
Here is a groundbreaking narrative that can help all readers-children and adults alike-talk about the feelings hiding deep inside each of us.
- ISBN10 0374307415
- ISBN13 9780374307417
- Publish Date 21 July 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English