Book Review: Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos

Your Mama
by NoNieqa Ramos (jP Ramos)

This book takes the format of “Your Mama…” insults that many children say to each other on the playground and beautifully spins them towards the incredible aspects of motherhood. This book would be wonderful for families to read together to reflect on the invisible labors that mothers take on for the good of the family. Children of single mothers and single mothers themselves will likely feel very seen in this book. My only warning about this book: fathers, non-binary parents, and other caretakers might also want similar books about themselves. This book has so many loving and powerful statements in it, it’s hard to not be joyful after reading it. I can’t wait to see an older child pick this up and read it to their mom as an expression of gratitude.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok, Dad By My Side by Soosh, Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzalez, Saturday by Oge Mora, Birdie’s Beauty Parlor by Lee Merrill Byrd, In Your Hands by Carole Boston Weatherford, Me & Mama by Cozbi Cabrera, and Just Like a Mama or Honey Baby Sugar Child, both by Alice Faye Duncan.)

 

( official Your Mama page on the official NoNieqa Ramos web site )

 

Recommended by Naomi S.
Eiseley Branch Library

 

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