How have I gone my entire life not realizing the family in the corduroy books was Black.  The world has always needed more POC recognition in children’s books, but maybe in my younger days I didn’t pay attention the way I do now.  I love the corduroy books, or at least remember loving them as a child, and this book reiterated it.  Viola Davis writing a new book for the 50th anniversary of the original makes more sense to me now.  I wish there were more books like Corduroy, and more books with various POC as a child.  I may not be POC, but as a navy brat, I would have loved to see the places I lived and people I made friends with more represented. 

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