Homemade Love | hooks

Her Mama calls her Girlpie--a sweet treat, homemade with love. Evans' resplendent artwork teems with homemade love, one of the tender nicknames award-winning author hooks gives her young heroine. Full color.

I Am Loved | Giovanni 

Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen of National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish.There is nothing more important to a child than to feel loved, and this gorgeous gathering of poems written by Nikki Giovanni celebrates exactly that.