You Be Mommy Juvenile Fiction Holidays & Celebrations - Halloween Monsters Girls & Women As Indigo Blume drifts off

As Indigo Blume drifts off to sleep

This book follows his life from enslaved orphan to his student days as the first African American to attend Iowa State College (where he later taught) and on to his work in the field of agriculture

even while battling cancer

Before words or tools or fire

Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father—as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr

You Be Mommy Juvenile Fiction Holidays & Celebrations - Halloween Monsters Girls & Women As Indigo Blume drifts offA tired mommy lets her daughter have a turn being the parent at bedtime in You Be Mommy, a humorously charming debut picture book from writer Karla Clark and illustrator Zoe Persico. Mommy's too tired to be Mommy tonight. Can you be Mommy and hold me tight? In this clever, rhyming picture book, a mother tells her child that she's simply too tired to be Mommy tonight and asks her daughter to take over for her. An utterly relatable theme told with humor