num_pages: 40
description: A New York Times bestseller!A visit to Washington DCs National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Currys young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obamas portrait.When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sheralds transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery she didnt just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queen one with dynamic self-assurance regality beauty and truth who captured this young girls imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker it became an internet sensation. Inspired by this visit Parker and her mother Jessica Curry tell the story of a young girl and her family whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment in a moving picture book.Parker Looks Up follows Parker along with her baby sister and her mother and her best friend Gia and Gias mother as they walk the halls of a museum seeing paintings of everyone and everything from George Washington Carver to Frida Kahlo exotic flowers to graceful ballerinas. Then Parker walks by Sheralds portrait of Michelle Obamaand almost passes it. But she stops...and looks up!Parker saw the possibility and promise the hopes and dreams of herself in this powerful painting of Michelle Obama. An everyday moment became an extraordinary onethat continues to resonate its power inspiration and indelible impact. Because as Jessica Curry said anything is possible regardless of race class or gender.**FOREWORD BY ARTIST AMY SHERALD**
language: English
title: Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
publisher: Aladdin