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This event began 02/06/2025 and repeats every year forever
Miles of Style from Lisa D. Brathwaite
Miles of Style February 6, 2024
Title: Miles of Style
by Lisa D. Brathwaite & illustrated by Lynn Gaines
from @Lee and Low Books
REFERRAL IN AALBC
https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10640-lee-low-spring-2024-titles-for-review-consideration/
official buying page
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/miles-of-style/
MY REVIEW
Martin Luther King jr. once said "... to tell a bootless man to pick himself up by his bootstraps is
a cruel jest." While the murdered leader referred to whites, once the enslavers, speaking to
blacks, once the enslaved, in the U.S.A., the basis from which any succeed is extremely plus
rarely bootless. While "Miles Of Style" functionally plus intentionally doesn't provide the most
detailed biography of Eunice Johnson, founder of the Ebony Fashion Fair. Said book, written by
Lisa D. Braithwaite, shows in brief how having boots is not irrelevant, unimportant, or
inexcusable in the ability to strive in life, in the U.S.A. or anywhere else, at any time. The boots
Eunice Johnson had, made by her parents plus community, led to Johnson creating, shepherding,
or growing the Ebony Fashion Fair, the main subject of “Miles Of Style”, to a mandatory
element of human history.
Braithwaite's literature, accompanied by illustrations from Lynn Gaines, is truly chic; they
provide a financially sparing while efficient biography of the Ebony Fashion Fair, centered on an
incomplete while mandatory biography of a Black woman, born surrounded by elegance or
contemporary fashion from inside a blockaded Black populace in the U.S.A. The boots she was
born in supported her life path, a branch of which led to her showcasing the fashion she was born
surrounded by to all outside her blockaded community, in the U.S.A. or beyond, in the style of a
modern-day influencer.
The book is full of positive, in color tone or composition, pastel illustrations of Black people in
the USA mostly plus overwhelmingly, not totally, consistent in illustrative style or storytelling
flow.
The book delivers on all the promises in its summary concerning Eunice Johnson: rearing,
education, marriage, Ebony Magazine, Ebony Fashion Fair. A rough approximation is half of the
book concern Eunice Johnson before the Ebony Fashion Fair, and four fifths concern her life
during and after the Ebony Fashion Fair.
The Black populace in humanity, the tribes native to each continent plus immigrant communities
through enslavement or free will, has many, not all or most, who adore stories about Black
people who lived in no less glamour or peace than non-Blacks in times before the modern
internet age. This book with its illustrations plus history delivers such a story.
I am not six or eleven years old; I cannot say how a child will react while or after reading this
book. But as an adult who has read to children, I think adult readers to children, in homes as well
as the secondary educational institutions called schools, will have a chance to share Eunice
Johnson's depicted story, and along the way may learn from the book while the book never stops
trying to uplift the viewer or reader with positive, creative, energy.
The book can inspire any child, any phenotype or age or location, to color more or design more
or imagine more beyond any perceived or real limitations. Said creativity is the road to the
destination of being truly chic. This book, if owned, will be part of the boots one needs to walk
said road.
