The Kwanzaa Story: Celebrating Culture through Community Dolls & Puppets tells their stories and more—the

tells their stories and more—the diverse and inclusive cast that includes

a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California

honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams

by the acclaimed author of Mirror Mirror

With encouragement from family and friends

The Kwanzaa Story: Celebrating Culture through Community Dolls & Puppets tells their stories and more—theDiscover the history and importance of Kwanzaa, a week long December holiday celebrated in Black, African, and African American culture. In The Kwanzaa Story, little Alliah (of The Juneteenth Story fame) is all grown up and, along with her husband LeVaur, teaches their children Daphne and Alistair why they celebrate Kwanzaa as a family and as a community. This beautifully illustrated storybook shares the origins of the holidayrooted in Africa, born in