Pure joy and the power of community radiate from this sweet picture book about a young Black girls perseverance and confidence in following her double Dutch dreams.

Africas grandmother was a double Dutch legend, and Africa knows she can become the same. Her brother scoffs when she signs up for a double Dutch competition, thoughhow can she hope to compete when shes never done it before? But Africa has all the tools she needs: memories of her grandmother, her bestie Biancas dance moves, her friend Omars rhythm, and her classmates Mary Mack timing and cartwheels.

If Africa can pull everything together to jump some winning moves, she might just fly, but its the birthmark in the shape of her name that tells her shes always been a winner. [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].

 

 

This book is aimed at children in preschool-3rd grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 40 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2022 by Simon & Schuster .