Like the girl in the book, I was tender-headed, so it was a struggle to sit still. Redd: Every night until I was about 11 or 12, I would scoot between my mom’s legs, and my mom would drag out the Dax and Vitapointe and start combing, brushing, and braiding my hair while we watched TV. What was your relationship with your own hair like as a young girl? When I came up empty handed, I decided to create one myself and the result is Bedtime Bonnet! My mom and I love our bonnets and I wanted my daughter to feel the same way, so I looked for an age-appropriate resource to help normalize and celebrate this facet of Black culture, to no avail. This is understandable because none of the cartoon characters of color on her favorite shows wore bonnets or durags to bed. Nancy Redd: When I first introduced the bedtime bonnet into my daughter’s nighttime hair routine, she balked at wearing it, because she thought a nighttime head covering was only for old people like me and her grandma. The Tease: What inspired you to write Bedtime Bonnet? The cover of Nancy Redd’s debut children’s book, Bedtime Bonnet.
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