Down on the Bayou Cover:Hardcover Swarns illustrates how the Church

Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion

The Republic of Atala’s president has turned into a ruthless despot

tender odes to the Black women in her life

Sydney isn’t sure—all she knows is that

Eeny Up Above

Down on the Bayou Cover:Hardcover Swarns illustrates how the ChurchFrom the award winning creators of Ice Cream Man and Good Things comes a journey through the mystical world of the Louisiana Bayou. Follow along as a young boy learns about the environment and the history of the bayou while on a boat ride with his grandpa. This stunning picture book features sidebars with fun facts and snippets of a poem woven throughout the narrative. The bayous calling out to me. Come back, my son, it says. Come see. What holds me