Black Girl You Are Atlas i’d like a pony for

i’d like a pony for my birthdayand a necklace for my birthday

this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective

Mary Jackson

and his attempts to show them that he truly can care for critters all end in disaster

this classic presents historical

Black Girl You Are Atlas i’d like a pony forA Coretta Scott King Honor Book Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender