To order Bedtime Bonnet via Amazon, click here. 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. It's a 'ubiquitous black experience that I grew up with, my mom grew up with, all my friends grew up with,' Redd says and yet it's one that she felt ashamed of as a kid. When Nancy Redd's daughter was three years old, she started wearing a bonnet to bed. 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.” Her book Bedtime Bonnet celebrates black nighttime hair routines. About the Illustrator: Nneka Myers lives in Toronto and creates designs filled with color, texture, and diversity for publishers and the animation industry. 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 was inspired by the lack of resources Nancy encountered when she introduced a bonnet to her daughter’s nighttime routine.

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. Perfect for readers of Hair Love and Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut Product Details.

“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. 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.

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