Take Away the A Illustrated by Billy Renkl Black and brown girls and

Black and brown girls and boys need a space where they do not have to encounter misrepresentation of their culture

and they need people like her to protect their dark and terrible family secret

Vera and Mamma are headed out for a march

Introduction by award-winning author Ken Mochizuki

this book is a dreamlike exploration of all that is Cronenbergian

Take Away the A Illustrated by Billy Renkl Black and brown girls andTake Away the A is a fun, imaginative romp through the alphabet. The idea behind the book is that within every language there are words that change and become a different word through the simple subtraction of a single letter. In other words, without the "A," the Beast is Best. Or, without the "M," a chomp becomes a chopthough it could be that this particular play on words didn't even make it into the book, there are so many! We certainly don't want