Ain't Burned All the Bright

<b>A Caldecott Honor winner!</b><br> <br><b>Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.</b><br><br>Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.<br> <br> And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe, <i>REALLY </i>breathe,<i> for generation</i><i>s</i>, now you know. And those who already do, you’ll be nodding yep yep, that is <i>exactly</i> how it is.