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Summary

A Black girl grows up adored as a baby, then begins to hear that she is too big, too much, and not the way others expect her to be. The book traces how careless words shrink a child's sense of herself before she reclaims space, sets down what does not belong to her, and learns to love who she is. Vashti Harrison uses tender pastel illustrations and inventive page design, letting the heroine sometimes outgrow the borders of the spread to make the emotional weight of the story visible.