11/50: Honey Baby, Sugar Child by Alice Faye Duncan

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This is an impossibly sweet and beautifully illustrated children's book. The story is simple - a mother telling her baby boy just how much she loves him, loves to kiss him, hug him, play with him, and the joy he brings her. The artwork by Susan Keeter (not a POC, however) are lush, warm oil paintings of an African-American mother and child. The verses are lyrical and almost should be sung, and with some good use of dialect ("I'm gone always be yo sweet Ma'Dear", for example). Made me tear up as I read it to my baby boy!