Reviews with content warning for Slavery - Inheritance: A Visual Poem

By popular young-adult author Elizabeth Acevedo, Inheritance: A Visual Poem presents readers with an incredible amount of reflection and introspection about the beauty and meaning of natural Black hair. Acevedo creates texture and movement with her written poetry while Andrea Pippins compliments those words with illustrations of full color blocks and popping artwork. This is a nonfiction masterpiece.

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betweentheshelves's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I mean, did we expect anything but perfection in an Elizabeth Acevdeo poem? Also, I highly recommend listening to Acevedo recite this poem while reading the book because it is a totally different experience. The way the illustrations, the size of the text, the formatting all fit her performance of it? Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

I'm okay with this trend of illustrating popular YA poets (see Jason Reynolds' Ain't Burned All the Bright from earlier this year). Especially if you take the time to listen and read at the same time!

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amberinpieces's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad

3.5

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