The Shade Tree

The Shade Tree is a wonderful book that your children will discover
the essence of who they are. During your child's early years they will be
bombarded with outside influences that seek to set them an image of
who they are that is contrary to the values most of us would like to
instill as parents. Before turning introspective, children will form a self-image that early on looks at the outward appearances. The world says that bad guys wears black, that evil and magic are the dark arts, that the brown cake
is Devil's food cake. Systematically, and relentlessly, our children are
indoctrinated that the color of the face staring back at them in the
mirror is associated with all things bad. Not only must we remove the
negative imagery, but we must then replace the negative with the positive. This
book, The Shade Tree, is a tool that will help children not only feel good about
themselves, but also to embrace all the various different skin shades
in the diaspora. Your child will also have fun reading the colorful book that
can also be performed as a skit which celebrates a parade of beautiful skin
colors and thereby teach large numbers at once a love for self and a
love for others regardless of skin color and what stigmas society attempts
to attach.