Season 4 Episode # 8 Hair Love book review

 Today I review the new book Hair Love by author Matthew A. Cherry and illustrator Vashti Harrison, The book is about the importance of hair and black hair especially. I can’t wait for you to learn about this book.


Today we are reviewing Juneteenth for Maize by Floyd Cooper. It's a great book that explores the true meaning of Juneteenth. But it's not just a history lesson, but also shares inspiring stories.

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Hello, everyone. Jebeh Edmunds here. And welcome back to the cultural curriculum chat podcast. I'm so excited that you are here with us today, and I'm going to share with you a really poignant. Heart tugging gives you all the feels. Picture book. Titled hair love. Written by Matthew A.. Cherry and illustrated by Vashti Harrison. The reason why I pick this book is the main character Zuri. It's Swahili for beautiful. And she is getting ready for her day. And. She has lots on her mind, but it just talks about how she revels in her natural hair in her coils. And in the story. You know, she loves having her hair in different styles. For example, she loves her funky braids with beads and she feels like a princess. She says that her daddy tells her that she's beautiful, which makes her feel so good. It's so reaffirming and it just shows how. Even the hairstyle. She has it. morphs her into a different persona of herself. For example, when her hair is in two puffs, two little Afro puffs, she feels like a superhero. And some days that she hangs out to have magical moments in some days when she gets up for her daily routine. She's got to figure out how am I going to do my hair? And she's looking online for tutorials and things like that. But. Her daddy needs to help. And. The beautiful thing about this book that she wants to have her hair. To look good to make her feel good about herself. And this dad just has no idea, bless his heart and he's trying his hardest and he's trying to see, what kinds of ways can I help my daughter Zuri? And Zuri is just like, you?. Okay, but see how this is going to go down and dad's trying, you know, and it kind of reminds me of how the one time that I can remember at my core memory, when my father. Uh, the late. Emmett Metzger try to do my hair. And I remember he had all my hair slides and my hair ties and he was pulling and pushing and all of that. And I ended up with one braid. Off the top of my head, just stuck straight up to the sky, but he tried and it just reminds me of Zuri, his dad of him trying as hard as to. Get his daughter's hair done too. Enjoy and make her feel. So good on the inside as well as she looks on the outside. And he even did his homework. And that's what I think is really neat because. When mom was away at a time, I don't want to give away too much. It was nice to see that dad took the time to. Really cultivate and make sure that Zuri's hair was protected and still Regal at the same time. And why I picked this book. For you audience is so many of us in the BIPOC community with our natural hair. We. Need to have you all understand that it takes a lot of time. Our hair is very delicate. It's easily breakable and. Ways that we use to protect our hair so it can grow in thrive. And some things where people might be asking. Well, wow. Jeb, you had braids in your hair one day and now you have it in twists or now you have it in puffs or you just have it out natural as a little mini. Afro a TWA. And there's some things that we love to change it up. We love to change our hairstyles, but we also know that it takes a lot of care. And a lot of patience with our hair. And what I think educators can use with this book is to show all of our kids the different styles. That are in the BIPOC community with our hair and our natural hair care, but it also shows the importance of how we value our hair. There's an old African American saying that says our hair is our crown and glory. And my touch on that is an crown should be seen. And not touched. So when you are an elementary school educator and you are reading this book to your students, please reiterate to the, your students, especially your African-American students in your classroom. That it does not give anybody permission to touch their hair. Their hair is their crowning glory. I can't tell you how many times when I was a student where people would want to touch my hair, I put sand in my hair or. I felt like I was on display. And even as an adult, even as a teacher, how colleagues, some colleagues would come up to me and asked to touch my hair. It just negates the fact of feeling like I was tokenized. I felt very tokenized. When I had colleagues. Um, would come up and want to touch my hair. So having books like hair love. Opens up that conversation of the respect of black natural hair. And also opens the door to all kids to see the different hairstyles and the pride that comes with it. So I highly recommend this book, hair love by Matthew A cherry. And illustrated by Vashti. Harrison. They also have a animated short. That goes along with it. And what I love about this animated short. Um, it doesn't have much dialogue, but you could just see in their nonverbal cues and communication, how that love that the father has for his daughter. And his determination to get the hairstyles just right. Just like mom did. And so I highly recommend reading the book first and then showing the animated short. You're just going to love both of them. So highly recommend this book. Please share this episode with people that love their natural hair. And share with a friend who might be curious about natural hair and the different styles that go with it. Thank you so much for listening. And don't forget to. Write a review of this podcast. That way I can share my show with many other educators. And like-minded friends in the literature space. That just makes my heart grow 10 times more. So, thank you all so much for listening and I will see you next time. Bye-bye.