{"id":8309,"date":"2016-09-12T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/naturally-me\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T06:48:12","slug":"naturally-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/naturally-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturally Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"51SOCBXwIHL__SX398_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/a>Crystal Swain Bates wrote the children’s book “Naturally Me” to help build children’s confidence and self-esteem.<\/p>\n

The protagonists of the book are a Black girl with freckles and a Black boy with a gap in his teeth. Throughout the book, from a first-person narrative perspective, the two refer positively to their identities and appearances.<\/p>\n

“Naturally Me” is primarily aimed at African-American children, but at the same time its message is an encouraging and universal one that should ultimately apply to all children and adults as well.<\/p>\n

Crystal Swain-Bates: 2014: Naturally Me. California: Goldest Karat Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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