Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha They just want to get

They just want to get past it

From the New York Times bestselling creator of Not Quite Narwhal comes a tasty picture book about two kids who get into time travel shenanigans while trying to skip waiting for cookies to bake

NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

full of vivid and deceptively simple observations of the world around us

” As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats

Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha They just want to getJoining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture. Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be