What Love Looks Like
by Laura Obuobi (Author) Anna Cunha (Illustrator)
From Laura Obuobi, author of Black Gold and NAACP Image Award nominee, and illustrator Anna Cunha comes a whimsical bedtime story about the love between a Black father and his daughter. This tender tale with lush natural imagery and pure Black joy captures love's vastness, showing us its greatest form is often the one between parent and child.
One question must be answered before Afia can slip into a peaceful sleep: What does love look like? With the companionship of her loving papa, Afia journeys to find love and learns that it is the warmth of the sun's hugs, the brook's soothing song, and other mesmerizing gifts of nature. But Afia's quest also teaches her that she may not have to go too far to see the emotion at the heart of the world's wonders.
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Obuobi pens a whimsical bedtime tale featuring Afia, a Black girl resistant to falling asleep "when the June evening sky made the world seem wide awake." Instead of tucking in, Afia calls out to Papa, asking him what love looks like. When he suggests finding out, "a gentle wind twirled Afia and her papa," first to a warm desert, then to a chilly mountaintop, and then to a seashore and a forest. Each landscape offers an experience of affection, from the desert's "skin-tingling touch of love" to the mountain's "delightfully cool taste of love." Cunha's expressive colorblock art portrays each background with hazy detail, giving a dreamlike quality to her rosy-cheeked characters' journey. And when the two head home with new knowledge about what love looks like, they're certain too in the knowledge that "love looks like you and me." Ages 4-8. (June)
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JUV017140 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Father's Day
