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Goodnight Racism

National Book Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby) returns with a new picture book that serves as a modern bedtime classic.

As children all over the world get ready for bed, the moon watches over them. The moon knows that when we sleep, we dream. And when we dream, we imagine what is possible and what the world can be.

With dynamic, imaginative art and poetic prose, Goodnight Racism delivers important messages about antiracism, justice, and equality in an easy-to-read format that empowers readers both big and small. Goodnight Racism gives children the language to dream of a better world and is the perfect book to add to their social justice toolkit.

 
 

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Kendi’s inclusive narrative expands beyond bedtime, depicting the moon as an equitable orb observing children the world over. Some of these children ‘do not have food,/ do not have beds/ because of unfair rules/ and unjust treatment.’ But the moon ‘sees all kids—/whoever they are,/ wherever they are’ and longs for ‘her light/ to kiss every child goodnight,’ engendering sleep that results in dreams of possibilities: ‘A world where all people are safe,/ no matter how they look,// how they worship,//or how they love.’ Bayoc’s jewel-toned digital art mimics oil pastel saturations, showing images of people of myriad abilities, ages, body types, and skin tones in varied living situations. In simple, affirming prose, Kendi’s call is a socially responsible send-off to sweeter dreams of a world ‘where all kids have the same chance/ to have peace,/ to have joy,/ to have a childhood.’
— Publisher Weekly