Cool fact: Mabel learned how to ice skate in her room. Black skaters weren’t allowed to skate in the local ice rink, so Mabel’s uncle made her a mini ice rink out of dry ice. ⛸️✨ #kidlitart

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Here’s the link to Marvelous Mabel: bit.ly/MarvelousMabel

Thank you so much! 🥹✨ And that’s so cool! You got this 🎵💪🏾

I’ve been drawing since I was kid! It’s always been my hobby. I’m really grateful to have been able to hone my skills to be able to do it as a career. 🥹 But aside from that, I’m inspired by everyday life!

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Available wherever books are sold! 💜✨

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It’s a really great book, please check it out if you haven’t! 🥹💖

Thank you!! I’ll be adding alt text from now on!

Thank you so much!! I usually do, but I’ve been forgetting lately. Thank you for reminding me! I’ll get back to it.

Available for preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/pray...

Prayer Is is now available for preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/pray...

and 'a gift from God that everyone gets to use.... No matter who we are/ or what we do.' Characters are portrayed with brown skin." -- Publishers Weekly

And while prayer can often come easily, the text suggests, it can also be challenging, especially 'when we’re mad,' as in a scene that finds a child lying, frustrated, in bed. Through it all, the concept emerges as one component of connection to loving community—

offering reassuring text and warm-hued slice-of-life vignettes. The practice is defined variously: as expressing 'what’s deep in our hearts,' as comfort, as hope, as forms of mindfulness and listening, and more.

"As a family gathers around the breakfast table, joins hands, and bows their heads in prayer, a child opens one questioning eye to the scene: 'We pray./ But what is prayer?' In the following pages, Fryer Brown and Harris gently expand the notion of prayer beyond one of petition,