{"id":2426,"date":"2019-07-19T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-399\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T21:24:28","slug":"my-hair-is-a-garden","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/my-hair-is-a-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hair is a Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/myhairisagarden.jpg\" alt=\"[My Hair is a Garden] cover\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can we tend to our sense of self the way we tend to a garden? Can a garden teach us self-acceptance and resilience? Cozbi Cabrera&#8217;s picture book, <em>My Hair is a Garden<\/em>, demonstrates the way a little girl who is teased for her appearance takes heart in the kind guidance of an older neighbor who is a gardener. A garden contains beauty in many forms, and a tree is not better than a ground cover: &#8220;They&#8217;re both beautiful [\u2026] even though they&#8217;re so different.&#8221; The neighbor teaches the girl practical lessons in caring for her hair, but more importantly and subtly, she sows in her the seeds of self-confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we tend to our sense of self the way we tend to a garden? Can a garden teach us self-acceptance and resilience? Cozbi Cabrera&#8217;s picture book, My Hair is a Garden, demonstrates the way a little girl who is teased for her appearance takes heart in the kind guidance of an older neighbor who is a gardener. A garden contains beauty in many forms, and a tree is not better than a ground cover: &#8220;They&#8217;re both beautiful [\u2026] even&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/my-hair-is-a-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Hair is a Garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22],"class_list":["post-2426","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}