Freedom Reads: "Missing Daddy" by Mariame Kaba
Episode 3 from Teaching for Change's video series, “Freedom Reads: Anti-Bias Book Talk.” Each episode introduces a children’s books using an anti-bias, anti-racist lens as a strategy to learn ways to talk about issues around race and the world with children.
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This episode features Teaching for Change associate director Allyson Criner Brown talking about "Missing Daddy," a picture book written by Mariame Kaba, an anti-criminalization and anti-violence educator and organizer. In the author’s note she writes: “Many children cannot articulate their feelings of longing for their incarcerated parent and so they keep their anger, sadness, and fear bottled up. This book is my attempt to amplify the voices of children with incarcerated loved ones.” The illustrator is bria royal, a multidisciplinary artist from Chicago.
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