Star Child

at first I was like, why is there a biography of Octavia Butler aimed at kids who are too young to read any Octavia Butler books? And then I was like, oh okay she's an icon she's an inspiration she's the moment. I think it really does work as a micro-history of Black American life even if you haven't read any of Butler's books, and reading about how Octavia used to write stories about magic horses in her pink notebooks and grew up to be this very acclaimed author is very cool for kids (esp Black kids) to read. And the shape poems (and other poems) are beautiful and engaging. CHOICE.