Family Feast!
$50.81
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2025
Summary
From the award-winning author and illustrator comes a joyous picture book about an intergenerational Black family cooking a delicious feast and appreciating their quality time together.
Aunts, uncles, cousins, all pitch in. Hustle, bustle in the kitchen. Catching up, shooting the breeze, sharing stories and recipes.
When it comes to a family feast, it’s all hands on deck! Big Ma and Pops have been up early in anticipation of everyone’s arrival. Aunts, uncles, and cousins gathe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593898307 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593898303 |
| Author: | Carole Boston Weatherford, Frank Morrison |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 286mm x 236mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
★ “A triumphant and utterly inviting gustatory celebration.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review★ “Readers will clearly see that sharing food at a table strengthens the bond of a family, and brings everyone closer together. This is a gorgeously illustrated celebration of African American family and food.” —School Library Journal, starred review★ “The joy lingers long after dessert across this soulful tribute to legacy, love, and familial gatherings.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review“Weatherford’s narrative reads aloud beautifully; Morrison’s illustrations capture the warmth and strength of the characters and relationships that bring this happy family together for a time they clearly treasure.” —Booklist“This rhyming, buoyant picture book shows a Black family enjoying the unifying, gratifying experience of coming together to make a meal.” —The Bulletin“[An] inviting book about a Black family gathering for a holiday meal.” —The Horn Book
About The Author
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner and an ALA-ALSC Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner. She is the author of Standing in the Need of Prayer, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner; Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, which won the Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Awards, a Caldecott Honor, and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor Book Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom; Family Feast!; and many other acclaimed books. She was also named the 2025-2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Carole was born in Baltimore, where she now resides.
Frank Morrison started his journey as a graffiti artist in New Jersey. It wasn’t until he visited the Louvre Museum in Paris with his dance group that he realized painting was his true creative path. His work has been featured at Art Basel, SCOPE Miami Beach, and Red Dot art fairs, and shown at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the illustrator of over twenty children’s books, including the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winners Standing in the Need of Prayer and R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award winner Jazzy Miz Mozetta, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor books Little Melba and Her Big Trombone and Let the Children March. Frank now lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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