Parents speak:
"MAMA RELLY made me feel proud of being African-American. It made me realize the importance of teaching my people about my people."
"Mama Relly had a powerful effect on me because she taught Cyndi about her hopeful and triumphant past."
"Mama Relly showed me how culture can be integrated into the language of a book."
About MAMA RELLY
Based on two slave narratives and overflowing with figurative language, Mama Relly was created to be a teaching tool. Truth told in prose and poetry with captivating Afro-Manga styled characters, it promises to engage students as they learn to identify and utilize alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, couplets, among many other figurative terms, literary devices and word forms in aligned writing tasks. Additionally, instilling the reality of hope and survival during the darkest days of African-American history, Mama Relly teaches while it empowers children of all ethnicities.