Black Boy, Black Boy
Hard cover
Full-color book.
Page Count
32
Trim Size
9.5 X 8
Price
$18.95
Publisher
Beaver’s Pond Press
ISBN
13:978-1-64343-881-8
Black Boy Meta Data
Check out the Book
Take a peek inside our Wonderworld
A Melodic Mantra
with a powerful message: black boys can be a doctor, a judge, the president . . . anything they want to be!
I wrote this book
for black boys so they can be excited to see themselves as the heroes of the story
I wrote this book
for black boys so the repetitive patterns can help them learn to read.
I wrote this book
for black boys so it will become a subconscious mantra—the things you say to kids become what they think. And I want black boys to know they can be anything.
The Creators
Crown Shepherd is an emerging fiction, picture book, and comic book writer. Her writing is a result of her surroundings and upbringing. She has always been deeply rooted in literature and writing, but it wasn’t until she found more writers that looked like her that her writing soared. Those writers allowed her to dream and create by her own standards, and from a point of view of a black protagonist. As someone from an under-represented community, Crown knows what it means to have representation feed your creativity. The stories she wants to share are aimed at giving a voice to the voiceless.
Mychal Batson is a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur from St. Paul, MN who’s scribbled on pages and drawn in margins since he was old enough to hold a pencil. After graduating from Augsburg College with a degree in English: Creative Writing , he taught himself design and illustration.
Black Arts is incredibly important. Education is important. And inspiring future artist and dreamers to create entirely new worlds using just their imagination is of the upmost importance.
