A Squiggly Story Juvenile Nonfiction Poetry Music African American & Black and wise woman who raised

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Legendary singer and Civil Rights activist Mavis Staples has teamed with an award-winning children’s poet to share her rousing life story in this spectacular picture book

A Squiggly Story Juvenile Nonfiction Poetry Music African American & Black and wise woman who raisedA young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But theres a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesnt know many words. Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter, his sister explains patiently. Why dont you start there, with a letter? So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers