Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings

How can you not sing? “Please read again?” That stylish, vivacious auntie in her braids and bright colours! A Black woman world traveler in a children’s book! I’d sing the whole thing through until my toddler daughter had it memorized, and we’d sing it together:īars. That book is a joy to read aloud - the rhythm and playfulness of Pat Cummings’ language is alive, and the art.oh my goodness! So vibrant and joyful and fun.Īnd don’t get me started on MY AUNT CAME BACK - that board book was purchased many times over because it was so well-loved. Many years later, as a new mom, I introduced my six-month-old to CLEAN YOUR ROOM, HARVEY MOON, and it was an instant hit - her absolute favourite book. The children I worked with saw themselves and their aunties and mommas and cousins in Pat Cummings’ art, and so did I - and that made our time together deeper and special.

JUST US WOMEN, by Jeanette Caines, and illustrated by Pat Cummings, was one of my favourites. It was a new program, which ended up meaning that we (there were four of us) had a lot of latitude and control over the books we chose to read. I was working in Harlem and Washington Heights as a summer literacy intern for my college, knocking on doors and offering to read to children and families in their homes. Pages: 42 Language: English Pages: 42.At 18, I had my first job as an advocate for Black children’s books. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white.

This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine.

Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings