A quiet yet empowering affirmation of love and acceptance. As I mentioned in my previous review, this is everything my childhood self (and, if I'm honest, my current self) needed to hear. Here is a book that celebrates those same kids. Here is a book that embraces kids who looked like me. I'm in a better place, but when I first heard about EYES THAT KISS IN THE CORNERS, I sobbed for about twenty minutes. Long story short, I spent a lot of my life ashamed of myself, including my eyes. My peers made it clear that since I wasn't fully Asian or fully Latina, I was going to have to work hard to fit in.

I'm a biracial woman (part Chinese and part Mexican) growing up, I wasn't aware of my features until I was enrolled in a new school. I can already tell that this will be everything ✨ġ-15-21: Pardon me while I wipe the tears away, but this book! Also read this author letter, which talks about her own story and what she hope that this book achieves as 'Learning to recognize our own beauty is an act of revolution.' However, do read Jess's review about how reading such a book as a kid could posed more questions than answers for adoptee kids. Some strides have no doubt been made, but there's still a long way to go and Eyes That Kiss in the Corners provides a stepping stone to such a future for which I'm glad. It's important to have such affirming stories when we live in a world where people of color are discriminated against and made to feel inadequate on the basis of something as simple as how their eyes look. Me *before reading*: Let's read this picture book so that I can complete my edited 2020 reading challengeįor real, though Eyes That Kiss in the Corners is absolutely beautiful and so well-written, I got emotional barely halfway through. 'I have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea.'

Eyes that kiss corners