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Nothing special / written by Desiree Cooper ; illustrated by Bec Sloane.

By: Contributor(s): Series: African American life seriesPublisher: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0814349730
  • 9780814349731
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 [E] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1 .C649 No 2022
Summary: "Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated entirely of repurposed textiles, Nothing Special celebrates the enduring connection between the generations who stayed in the South and the millions of emigrants for whom it will always be home. Between 1910 and 1970, more than six million African Americans left the Jim Crow South, but they never forgot the culture, the land, and the family they left behind. In the decades since, it has become a summer ritual for many black families to reverse the journey and return South for a visit to their homeplaces
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Picture Book Picture Book NMC Library Picture Book Collection PZ7.1 .C649 No 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001535490
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PZ7.1 .B788 LE 2016 Leave me alone / PZ7.1 .C336 Som 2021 Something good / PZ7.1. C38 Sum 2109 Summer / PZ7.1 .C649 No 2022 Nothing special / PZ7.1 .D22 D335 2018 Fox on the swing / PZ7.1 .D3363 Ev 2022 Everything in its place : a story of books and belonging / PZ7.1 .D4553 Pa 2019 Paws + Edward /

"Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated entirely of repurposed textiles, Nothing Special celebrates the enduring connection between the generations who stayed in the South and the millions of emigrants for whom it will always be home. Between 1910 and 1970, more than six million African Americans left the Jim Crow South, but they never forgot the culture, the land, and the family they left behind. In the decades since, it has become a summer ritual for many black families to reverse the journey and return South for a visit to their homeplaces

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