City Summer, Country Summer
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A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.
On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable.
Three Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love.
Watched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara, New York, Country, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of marco polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass.
With text brimming with love by award-winning author Kiese Laymon and deeply evocative illustrations by Alexis Franklin, City Summer, Country Summer illuminates the tenuous and tender bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another.
City Summer, Country Summer
By Kiese Laymon
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On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable.
Three Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love.
Watched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara, New York, Country, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of marco polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass.
With text brimming with love by award-winning author Kiese Laymon and deeply evocative illustrations by Alexis Franklin, City Summer, Country Summer illuminates the tenuous and tender bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another.
ISBN
9780593405567
Pages
32 pages
Publisher
Penguin Group
Published
Apr 1, 2025
Language
en
Cover type
Hardcover
Book details
- Authors
- Kiese Laymon
- ISBN
- 9780593405567
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Apr 1, 2025
- Publication year
- 2025
- Pages
- 32
- Dimensions
- 0.03937 in × 0.03937 in × 0.03937 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Children's BooksGrowing Up & Facts of LifeFriendship, Social Skills & School LifeGeography & CulturesMulticultural StoriesWhere We Live