Feb 1, 2025
the sun is out and it's callous and stout and i can't conceive of this loneliness
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the sun is out and it's callous and stout and i can't conceive of this loneliness
Shannon Wright: Reservoir of Love (Vicious Circle, 2025)
Twins by Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright
Shannon Wright
Superbe nouvel album de Shannon Wright. Ce morceau est particulièrement poignant. Écoutez le en entier, car il devient plus ample au fur et à mesure. Décidément j’aime à peu près tout ce qu’elle fait. Elle est complètement sous-estimée à mon humble avis.
Des chansons qui vont droit au cœur.
Written by Edwidge Danticat, Illustrated by Shannon Wright. When I initially put this book on BNP’s List of books to ...
When I initially put this book on BNP’s List of books to read in 2019, I wrote that the book’s cover made “me feel like I just received a hug from my mama, along with a hilarious text message filled with inappropriate emojis.”
Having been in the @shannondrewthis fan club for a while from following her on Twitter I knew that–she’d done comics (Castor & Carina: Halley’s Cosmic Combo), book covers (Betty Before X), and tons of illustration work, including a Google Doogle. So when she announced that her first picture book would be released this year, I. WAS. HYPED. I was also glad to have the book as Black History Month was mostly hot dumpster fire this year, and I only had a chance to actually read my copy once March, Women’s History Month, had began.
Wright is paired up with renowned author and Award-winning memoirist Edwidge Danticat (The Farming of Bones, Clare of The Sea Light, Mama’s Nightingale) for this children’s book “about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn’t feeling well.” A picture book with a brown skinned mother and daughter with thick, curly hair created by two Black women? Filled with words and art? I stated that this was all things bright and beautiful that I wanted to continue walking towards in 2019.
My Mommy Medicine is a darling new book for the kid lit crew detailing all the ways “Mommy Medicine can heal all the woes and make any day the best day!”
It features a little girl who is under the weather and her mom who is at home with her to make things right. Danticat’s wording is an adult’s recollection of favorite moments that may be near and dear to readers: a hug so warm and tight it feels like wearing my toastiest pajamas on a cool night” to “sometimes it’s a whispered prayer, just before nodding off at nap time.”
Wright’s illustrations are bright, big and beautiful. They fill up the page, and mom and daughter have various facial expressions the whole way through. The looks on their faces; hiding half their faces between their cards in a card game and the ultra silly, squishy face of the little girl before drinking her hot beverage were favorites of mine.
Read on here. [x]