George Ford

Hating having to get her wild hair painfully combed and braided every Monday,
Tisa decides to hide, but once her hair is done, she loves it
so much that her mother cannot tear her away from the mirror

It was really hard to find a Black lead easy reader before 2000. But Nikki Grimes has been writing forever and I was pleased to find this book for those beginning readers. The story was about a girl who gets her hair braided weekly and she doesn't want to do it. The story is great and I think it needs to be given new life with new illustrations. These current illustrations feel as dated as they are (1996) and ages a story that is timeless.

I used this book for making Text Connections, the story many students can reflect on and connect to it, whether it would be ethnicity or just simply the situation. a great book about a great little girl

a book talks about 4 children working within a classroom discussnig all the fun things that they can do
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