Homemade Love: Picture Book - Hardcover

Bell Hooks

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786806435 ISBN 13: 9780786806430

Publisher: Jump At The Sun, 2002

Synopsis

Her Mama calls her Girlpie-a sweet treat, homemade with love. And when Girlpie makes a mistake, the lover of her mother and father lets her pick up the pieces and make everything right again. Shane W. Evan's resplendent artwork teems with "homemade love," one of the tender nicknames award-winning author bell hooks gives her young heroine.

About this title

About the Author:

Shane W. Evans is a versatile illustrator whose work ranges from the Shanna Show books andHomemade Love to Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's DaughterandNo More.He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

From Publishers Weekly:

"My mama calls me girlpie," begins this tender riff on the ties that bind. "Daddy's honey bun chocolate dew drop." When the winsome girl at the story's center breaks a dish ("Everything I do cannot be right. 'Cause there is no all the time right"), her parents are quick to forgive her. Here, the tale makes an abrupt transition, and girlpie is in bed. The book ends with her drifting off to sleep, embraced by the warmth of her family's love ("No need to fear the dark place. 'Cause everywhere is home"). Despite some tender scenes and the exuberance of emotion with which hooks (Be Boy Buzz) invests her poetic prose, the picture book doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts. Evans' (Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter) illustrations go a long way toward making the moments hang together. Her cheerful, splashy paintings display an abundance of affection between the girl and her parents ("Kiss Kiss" accompanies a girlpie sandwich, the parents' faces flanking their daughter's exuberant face) and, immediately after, Evans conveys the rush of relief at having been forgiven ("Let life go on") with the heroine turning cartwheels in a field of flowers. But it may be difficult for readers to determine a theme: Is it a story about forgiveness? About overcoming fear of the dark? Perhaps the overall message of comfort and safety is enough to carry youngsters along in this upbeat hodgepodge of feel-good phrases and images. Ages 4-8.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Jump At The Sun
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786806435
• ISBN 13: 9780786806430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Shane W. Evans