![]() ![]() ![]() But the book of hers that I think I can unequivocally say I like the most now is Ways to Make Sunshine. Her picture book Harlem’s Little Blackbird remains memorable to this day. Renée Watson is one of those authors I read and I read and I read, and then wait on. But there are exceptions to every rule and for every nine intolerable doyennes of drivel there’s a tenth book where the character is more than a one-note cheerleader. Spunk, as far as I can tell, is nine times out of ten just a more upbeat form of didacticism, often considered preferable to boring browbeating fare. Children’s books are just rife with the stuff, overflowing with cheery aphorisms and chipper jolts of self-esteem. That’s kind of a blanket statement for what often turns out to be a fairly nuanced issue, so I’ll scale it back a bit. I am the Lou Grant of children’s literary reviewers. ![]()
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