Written by Miriam Muhammad
Summary:
*”ABC I Love Me” is a children's book written by Miriam Muhammad. This book was written by an African American author who promotes self-love and knowledge to all African American children. This alphabet book highlights an African American boy and girl to represent each word. The alphabets in this book promote and empower the young readers. The words that are being used are common stereotype characteristics of African Americans. The stereotyped words are turned from negative into positive. For example, the letter A is for afro, the sentence used is “I love my curly afro.” Oftentimes young African American children may think that their hair is bad, not beautiful, or not good. This book lets children not only embrace their hair, but to also keep and love it. Another example, the letter S is for skin, the sentence used is “I adore my skin.” This allows African American young readers to love and embrace the skin that they are in. Oftentimes black skin may be seen as bad, in this book, it individualized and promoted the character’s skin. This book encourages young readers to accept their unique identity, genetic traits while promoting positive confidence.
Element 1: Self-love and Knowledge
*This book coincides with element five “self-love and knowledge.” In the African American community, many African American children aren’t comfortable in the skin that they are in. There are many factors that contribute to it such as lack of representation in cartoon characters, television figures, and toys that children play with. Things verbally said to children also play a huge factor. Some people may make jokes or say things that are inappropriate, this can cause young children to lose their self-love. This book promotes this element by promoting self-love in all African American children no matter how they look or are viewed.
Activity:
*This activity can be taught for kids in Pre-K to twelfth grade. My goal for the activity is to teach students about self-esteem and self-love. Before I start any activity, I will define self-love and provide examples. Examples would be provided to ensure they understand the term.
For Pre-K to 1st grade:
*Students will create a “The What I Love About You Poster.” Students will put their names in the middle of the poster. Around their name, students will put empowering words around it. In this activity, students can turn negative words into positive things. Students can have positive words and pictures around their name.
For 2nd grade to 12th grade:
*Students can write a letter to themselves. In this letter, they can write in third person expressing and describing words for themselves. The letter should include details about the students’ personality, character traits, skin color, hair, ambition and goals. The students can either write a letter to the younger version of themselves or to the future version of themselves.
Article similar/ relatable to this book.
* https://matermea.com/how-i-taught-my-son-to-love-his-skin/
Links to purchase “ABC I Love Me”
*https://www.ebay.com/itm/284243879427?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
* https://www.boogiesbooks.com/collections/children/products/abc-i-love-me
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