Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children
by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Patrick Dougher
When happy things come to you, hold them close and never let go.
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2022
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- African Americans--Social life and customs
- African Americans--Social conditions
- Happiness
- Joy
- Poetry
- African American children--Juvenile fiction
- African Americans--History--Juvenile fiction
- African American children
- Picture books
- Self-esteem
- Happiness--Juvenile fiction
- Self-esteem--Juvenile fiction
- Black people
- Joy--Juvenile fiction
- Black people--History--Juvenile fiction
- African Americans
- Love-letters
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