

Produced by Sospecha Films for Netflix, shooting started in September 2020, taking place in different locations in Asturias, including Llanes, as well as in Manresa, Catalonia. Sánchez, the screenplay was written by Sánchez alongside Teresa de Rosendo and Paul Pen, with Sánchez and Kike Maíllo directing. There are many highly acclaimed, multi-starred review books with many, many awards that don't sell as well as this book does.Netflix ordered the series in late 2018. "There are very few books for any age that do (this) well beyond their first month, especially picture books.

On Amazon, new readers are leaving 5-star reviews such as, "We read it every day." The book is selling 1,000 to 1,500 copies a month according to Little, Brown, where Stapleton said she sees it as a book that parents will remember from childhood and read to their own kids. "For myself, as a cosmetologist who birthed a baby who actually knows how to hold a comb - because, I guess, of imprinting - this book gives us a chance to have a connection," she said. But Christmas said she suspects that she may be a bigger fan than her daughter. Nori enjoyed the book and brought it to school, where a friend's dad read it to her class. The initial attraction was simple: "The illustration on the front looks like my daughter," she said. "I Love My Hair!" by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (LB Kids ) White children, too, deserve - and need - to see black characters that revel in the same human experiences that they do," Millner wrote. "(Black kids) want to read books that engage with their everyday experiences, featuring characters who look like them. In a recent New York Times opinion piece titled "Black Kids Don't Want to Read About Harriet Tubman All the Time," author and editor Denene Millner pointed out that books about slavery and discrimination, however important and necessary, don't make great bedtime reading for young children.

The book also is in keeping with current calls for more joyful stories for young readers of color. "Afrofuturism and the need for speculative fiction and science fiction and comics - we need that right now, and this book touches on that," Campbell said. She also points to elements that seem surprisingly of-the-moment in the age of the "Black Panther" and "A Wrinkle in Time" movies, including Afrofuturism, which combines African mythology with technology and imaginative visions of the future. Today the book remains relevant, and not just because of its timeless theme of mother-daughter love and its celebration of black history, said Edi Campbell, an associate education librarian at Indiana State University.
