num_pages: 40
description: In a companion to Build a House Rhiannon Giddens--Grammy Award winner and cofounder of the Carolina Chocolate Dropsgives wing to a moving tale of grace and transcendence with acclaimed artist Briana Mukodiri Uchendu.At a sparrow's urging a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms a lightness in her feet a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time Mama says to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago? To hold each other tight and rise? Drawing on song lyrics which in turn draw on a heritage of African folklore this incantatory dialogue between a mother and daughter paired with startlingly beautiful illustrations celebrates love resilience and the spiritual power of the old-time waystradition and shared cultural memoryto sustain and uplift.
language: English
title: We Could Fly
publisher: Candlewick Press