The Book of Mean People

The Book of Mean PeopleA new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrisons first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes. "This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean." In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book collaboration with her son Slade, she offers a humorous and insightful look at how children experience meanness and anger in our world. The

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presented in a fascinating and meticulously researched historical narrative

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