Jabari Jumps
Author: Gaia Cornwall
Illustrator: Gaia Cornwall
Publisher: Candlewick, 2017
Publisher’s recommended age: 3+
This book is sweet and fun and perfectly captures a quintessential childhood experience. Yet at the same time, it is doing so much: acknowledging fear, modeling healthy coping mechanisms, showing black families at a public pool (there is a lot of history here that is definitely still resonant today all over the world), showing supportive parenting, a participant father figure, a positive image of a black male adult, a black boy protagonist….. This is just one of a series by author-illustrator Gaia Cornwall which follow Jabari on his every day adventures.
Available Languages: English, Spanish, French, Afrikaans.
It is not yet available in Italian.