To order Bedtime Bonnet via Amazon, click here. Bedtime Bonnet By Nancy Redd Board Book 8.99 Add to cart About the Book Product Details Author Bio Reviews This joyous and loving celebration of family is the first-ever picture book to highlight Black nighttime hair traditions-and is perfect for every little girl who knows what its like to lose her bonnet just before bedtime. The quick read features the full lips, brown skin, glorious locs, buoyant curls, and soft caresses that have made up the nightly routine of Black families for generations. Du-rags, silk scarves, wave caps, and doobie wraps are all represented in its pages. Redd wanted to transfer her love of the self-care ritual onto her little girl and children around the world. Redd merged her annoyance with her talents to write Bedtime Bonnet. Like when little children are going to bed, they are just laying their head on top of that cotton pillowcase and it stresses me out.” Even the Black ones, they don’t wear anything to bed on their head, which now is a huge plot hole that causes me stress. Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd, Nneka Myers (Illustrator) Hardcover 18.99 Hardcover 18.99 eBook 6.99 Audiobook 0.00 Board Book 8.

She continued, “I just didn’t know how to explain it to her because of the cartoon characters she would watch. “She only saw me and grandma in a bonnet.”

So it’s not like I was hanging out with the cousins and she was able to see other people her age,” said Redd. Bedtime Bonnet by Nneka Myers, Nancy Redd, 2020, Random House Childrens Books edition, in English. “Because when you’re 3 or 4, you are not going to sleepovers, you know what I mean? And we moved far away from our extended family. Bedtime Bonnet gives readers a heartwarming peek into quintessential Black nighttime hair traditions and celebrates the love between all the members of this close-knit, multi-generational family. Random House, 17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-9848-9524-0 In my family, when the sun goes down, our hair goes up, begins this story about a.