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Article: It's Kwanzaa Time! (children's bookshelf).(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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It's Kwanzaa Time! by Synthia Saint James Little Simon, October 2001, $5.99 ISBN 0689-84163-9
I am grateful for the many Kwanzaa storybooks available to our children. The more there are, the more permanent this cultural holiday becomes. Its principles will shape the way our children live in the world. However, the brightly colored, cardboard images of boys and girls with arms and legs flung wide in dancelike stances in artist Synthia Saint James's new book, It's Kwanzaa Time!, were not exciting and failed to illustrate the story of Kwanzaa.
Unlike the engaging, multi-patterned and narrative collage-like illustrations in the Little Bill book ...