Inheritance A Visual Poem
Reviews
4.5 stars - I like how Elizabeth Acevedo says so much with so little. Her words mean a lot, and the illustrations were complementary to what was written. Short, fast, beautiful
A quick, prettily illustrated book about embracing your race and your heritage.
Inheritance hit me deep. It's so relatable. As I kept passing the pages, all I could do was nod at everything Elizabeth Acevedo wrote. I'm thankful that nowadays in Puerto Rico, people are more accepting and loving of the curly hair. But as I was growing up, all I kept told to do was to straighten my hair. The only person in my life who always rooted for me to leave it curly was my grandpa. "You're burning your hair!", he'd exclaim every single time he'd see me with my hair straightened. It even was hard for me to love my natural 3C-type curls. And I always vowed that if I ever had kids with curly hair, I'd teach them to embrace them and love them for it gives them personality and culture and uniqueness. Seeing Elizabeth Acevedo wanting the same thing filled my heart. "Oh, how I will braid pride down their backs" But the quote that made me want to re-read the book over and over was: "Some people tell me to fix my hair. And so many words remain unspoken, because all I can reply is, you can't fix what was never broken."
Inheritance hit me deep. It's so relatable. As I kept passing the pages, all I could do was nod at everything Elizabeth Acevedo wrote. I'm thankful that nowadays in Puerto Rico, people are more accepting and loving of the curly hair. But as I was growing up, all I kept told to do was to straighten my hair. The only person in my life who always rooted for me to leave it curly was my grandpa. "You're burning your hair!", he'd exclaim every single time he'd see me with my hair straightened. It even was hard for me to love my natural 3C-type curls. And I always vowed that if I ever had kids with curly hair, I'd teach them to embrace them and love them for it gives them personality and culture and uniqueness. Seeing Elizabeth Acevedo wanting the same thing filled my heart. "Oh, how I will braid pride down their backs" But the quote that made me want to re-read the book over and over was: "Some people tell me to fix my hair. And so many words remain unspoken, because all I can reply is, you can't fix what was never broken."
