Authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters have teamed up to write this wonderful children’s poetry book called Can I Touch Your Hair: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. In Charles’s author’s note on the publisher’s blog, he says “While we invented many details to better serve the book, the spirit of each poem is based on our real-life experiences growing up in the 1980s and attending city and suburban public schools. Whether real or imagined, the poems reflect our truest and most honest emotions and recollections about our experiences related to race. Like the speakers in this book, during this poetry project, we experienced fear, but we were open; we made missteps, yet we stumbled forward; and we learned things, and it changed us.” This sounds like a great addition for any child’s home library or classroom library, doesn’t it? Please join us in celebrating this lovely and thoughtful collaboration!