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An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

$ 27.00

In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them.

Kara Walker, one of America’s greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors.

There has never been a book like 
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children―so inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal.

Ages 8 and up


Jamaica Kincaid (Author), Kara Walker (Illustrator)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover, 212 pages
ISBN 9780374608255


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