The National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature has written a new book, called 'Ain't Burned All the Bright,' targeted at teens that explores what it means to be Black in America right now.
The second breath is, of course, COVID-19, which attacks the respiratory system, while the third breath asks the question, “where does one find an oxygen mask?” The three breaths are told through the perspective of a young boy watching the news on TV with his family, and by the third breath the boy is wondering where does one find reprieve, with all this going on in the world.
“I was a kid who thought reading and writing, specifically reading, was something for other people,” he says of his childhood in Washington, D.C. “It didn’t seem like anything that was meant for me. I mean, we’re talking about the ’80s and the early ’90s. And it felt like no one was thinking about how to portray my life in a book.
“We need to make sure that they know, that we know that they’re in the world. That they have value,” Reynolds says. “I had the opportunity to write all these books, contemporary tales about Black kids, and all kids. But stories ‘about Black kids.’ So that one day when they’re 40, somebody says, ‘What was it like to be a Black kid in America in the early ’00s, 2020s?’ They can say, ‘Here goes 30 books written by the same person.
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