![]() ![]() On multiple pages, and most prominently on the cover, James surrounds characters’ heads with radiating lines or symbols in a halo effect, “crowning” them with pride. James’s oil paintings have a wonderful tactile quality and sense of movement. Together with the narrator we all feel, “Magnificent.Ĭrown’s illustrations burst with confidence and swagger. Imagine along with the narrator to feel “intellectual,” like a “brilliant,īlazing star,” “so FLY!” His carefully chosen descriptive details expertly evokeĪ shared experience, and his use of the second person pulls the reader along to ![]() The barber’s handheld mirror, he smiles because, “That’s the you that you loveĮxpressive language, Barnes’s poetic picture book debut invites the reader to Girls, an extra compliment from his mother. While the barberĭoes his methodical work, the boy imagines all that might come when he stepsīack out into the street: an A on his test, admiring glances and whispers from The shop, appreciating each one’s individual style and swagger. During his turn in the chair, he surveys the adults in Young African-American boy visits his neighborhood shop and leaves the troubles That comes from a trip to the barbershop. ![]() ISBN 1572842245Ĭrown taps into the magical feeling of renewed confidence ![]()
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