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One girl's search for the BEST party hair ever - as demonstrated by her family and friends.My birthday's coming up so soon,I'll need new clothes to wear.But most of all, I need to know,How shall I style my hair?Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this captures perfectly the excitement of getting ready for a celebration, as well as showcasing a dazzling array of intricate hairstyles.

One girl's search for the BEST birthday hair ever! A beloved picture book celebrating curly hair.My birthday's coming up so soon,I'll need new clothes to wear.But most of all, I need to know,How shall I style my hair?Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this board book captures perfectly the excitement of getting ready for a celebration, as well as showcasing a dazzling array of intricate hairstyles.

A completely original rhyming picture book that celebrates daring to be different, featuring Shiloh, the rapping princess.Here is a story that everyone should know.It's the tale of a princess named Shiloh.She lived in a kingdom, not far from yours,in a grand house with a swimming pool and fourteen floors.I know that sounds too big but here's the thing:her mother and father were the Queen and King.Being a princess is a tough job for someone so small.It's even harder when you have a problem you can't solve at all.You see, every princess in the kingdom could sing.Yet Shiloh's voice could do no such thing . . .Shiloh might not be able to sing like her sisters, but she has other talents, and sometimes it's about embracing your differences and celebrating them!

A completely original rhyming picture book that celebrates daring to be different, featuring Shiloh, the rapping princess.Here is a story that everyone should know.It's the tale of a princess named Shiloh.She lived in a kingdom, not far from yours,in a grand house with a swimming pool and fourteen floors.I know that sounds too big but here's the thing:her mother and father were the Queen and King.Being a princess is a tough job for someone so small.It's even harder when you have a problem you can't solve at all.You see, every princess in the kingdom could sing.Yet Shiloh's voice could do no such thing . . .Shiloh might not be able to sing like her sisters, but she has other talents, and sometimes it's about embracing your differences and celebrating them!

One girl's search for the BEST birthday hair ever! A beloved picture book celebrating curly hair now available in a new edition for even younger readers.My birthday's coming up so soon,I'll need new clothes to wear.But most of all, I need to know,How shall I style my hair?Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a high-top fade? Joyous and vibrant, this board book captures perfectly the excitement of getting ready for a celebration, as well as showcasing a dazzling array of intricate hairstyles.

Venice’s early modern workshops were celebrated hubs of creative innovation and artistic skill, and yet, as this book reveals, they also produced caricatures of ethnic minorities that not only reflected, but helped form, conceptual constructions of race across Europe during the period. This book explores the development of these ideas through the creation of figures and symbols, it highlights how Venice, as a global trading centre with a rich carnival and opera culture, gave rise to wider European perceptions of race through its material culture. From the beginning of the 17th century, carved wooden figures known as mori or moretti were on display in the homes of the Venetian elites. Most often designed for practical functions, they also echoed the roles occupied by living servants and enslaved people. Side-lined from scholarly attention, these objects have previously been generalized as European representations of exoticism. However, drawing on extensive archival evidence and material and visual analysis of surviving objects, this book explores how they worked in service to the objectification and racialization of the Black body. The book returns agency and significance to these sculpted wooden ‘moor’ figures as at it maps out the making process, from structural formation of the body in the woodcarving workshop, to a discussion of the symbolic function of black lacquer and the use of colourful paint, gilding, gold ornament and finishing. While it centres this phenomenon in the specific context of Venice’s social, political, and economic history, it also locates the popularity of these pieces within wider discourses related to race and enslavement. In this wider context, the book draws upon travel literature, artisanal and medical treatises, cartographic material, portraits, and costume books to reveal the subtle and powerful role the decorative arts play in the formation of cultural ideologies.