Portland Public Library

Not my idea, a book about whiteness, written and illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham

eng

illustrations

no index present

fiction

Not my idea

1030765865

written and illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham

"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed."--, Kirkus Review

Ordinary terrible things

a book about whiteness

"A white child sees a news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a person with brown skin who had their hands up. "We don't see color," the child's mother says, but the child senses a deeper truth. An afternoon in the library uncovers the reality of white supremacy in America. The child connects to the opportunity and their responsibility to dismantle white supremacy-for the sake of their own liberation out of ignorance and injustice"--Provided by author's website

juvenile