Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings

A young girl goes to stay with Auntie Luce in Haiti. While she visits, she learns about her Haitian heritage through Auntie Luce's paintings.

One of the things I learned from this story is that the Black citizens, the former enslaved people of the island, defeated the French and won the right to rule themselves. But the country was forced to pay hundreds of millions to the French for the land and the Haitians' own bodies, which the French said they had a right to own. This agreement guaranteed a future of poverty for the country. Shocking.

Big colorful illustrations are featured in this fascinating story set in Haiti.