@sopharush shares her library with us. “Representation matters & it starts in the home. As we were creating the library for our boys, I knew I wanted books that looked like them. Books they could read & identify with. I know for me growing up, I didn’t have books that looked like me. I struggled with my self identity most of my childhood & I didn’t want my boys to experience the same. So I put together a list of books that would be so beneficial for every kid’s library, whether you’re black or white.” Shop all these books here & purchase Beautiful Beautiful Me here.
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Beautiful Beautiful Me- Ashley Chea
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I am Enough- Grace Byers
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Explorers of the Wild-Cale Atkinson
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Mixed Me!- Taye Diggs
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Good Morning Superman- Michael Dahl and Omar Lozano
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Please Baby Please- Spike Lee , Tonya Lewis Lee
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Dream Big Little One-Vashti Harrison
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When God Made You- Matthew Paul Turner and David Catrow
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Brown Bear Brown Bear- Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
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The Jesus Storybook Bible- Sally Lloyd-Jones and Jago
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Peekaboo Morning- Rachel Isadora
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Every Little Thing- Bob Marley, Cedella Marley
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One Love- Bob Marley, Cedella Marley
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I am Martin Luther King Jr.- Brad Meltzer
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I am Brave- Brad Meltzer
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Chocolate Me! Taye Diggs
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Skin Like Mine- LaTashia M. Perry
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I love my Hair-Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and E. B. Lewis
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Brown Boy Joy- Dr. Thomishia Booker
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I am so Brave- Stephen Krensky and Sara Gillingham
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Woke Baby- Mahogany L. Browne and Theodore Taylor III
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Salt in his shoes- Deloris Jordan (Author), Roslyn M. Jordan (Author), Kadir Nelson
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Dancing in the Wings- Debbie Allen and Kadir Nelson
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Hair Love- Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison
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Hey Black Child- Useni Eugene Perkins and Bryan Collier
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Hair Like Mine- LaTashia M. Perry
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Crown- Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
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I am Harriet Tubman- Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos
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Boy who Never Gave Up-Stephen Curry
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Sulwe-Lupita Nyong’o
Instagram: @sopharush
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