![]() It's when Stevie has to leave that the true spirit shines through. All told in Robert's sweet, funny, jealous and frustrated voice. It's filled with compassion, and childhood innocence of bigger, grown-up world problems. The rivalry between the two makeshift siblings. There is the anxiety of the separation of mother and child. Mack? Well, she has to work all week and I'm gonna keep her little boy." I asked, "For how long?" She said, "He'll stay all week and his mother will come pick him up on Saturdays." And so Robert is thrown into living with Stevie, who has a knack for foiling all his fun. One day my momma told me, "You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you." And I said, "Who is it?" And she said, "You know my friend Mrs. If I was looking for an African American children's book pioneer, Mr. There is a huge leap of artistic growth between that book published in 1987, and this one, a story that was created and drawn beginning when the author was only 16 years old. Steptoe we've read previously was Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, after we saw a fabulous theatrical production of it last year by the Dallas Children's Theatre. and looking up the history of this book makes me weep even more. ![]() thus is the lot of the mother of an only child. ![]() and I have to say, when I read this to my son for the first time last night, I couldn't help but cry. My final post for American American History Month, and many thanks to Esme and Dawn for helping me sniff out some classics this week. ![]()
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