It’s Shoutout Saturday! Let me tell you about this very special gem from my collection by @gloriajeanpinkney entitled BACK HOME.
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👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👴👵 Living far away from extended family can make it tough to build and maintain bonds that help young children build their identity.
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🚙👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 This book reminds me of the many road trips my husband and I made with our children during their formative years.
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👧🏾🏙🚞🛤 Here the young star of the story travels from the city to visit her relatives at the home place down south and learns valuable lessons about life, legacy and family love.
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👧🏾💭🧒🏼💭🧒🏿💭👦🏻💭🧑🏼‍🦰💭 There’s much to be learned from stories like this about the sacrifices we make to hold onto our family relationships and pass our memories and traditions from one generation to the next even when life scatters is across the globe.
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🇺🇸 🇬🇭 🇳🇬 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 We all come from somewhere and that shapes us and gives us something to draw from as we work to carry forward the best of our family legacies.
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👶🏽👶🏻📚📖 Have you read this book? What do you love about the story?
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