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We Wait For the Sun

Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe

Illustrator: Raissa Figueroa

Ages: 6+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Roaring Book Press

ISBN: 978-1-250-22902-1

Keywords: grandmother, blackberries, family, African Americans

Digital illustrations capture the love between Black army veteran, lawyer and activist Dovey Johnson Roundtree and her grandmother. Informative back matter extends the story.