Welcome to the 56th episode of This One’s Dedicated to…, in which Jennifer Ziegler and I share our quick conversation with author Charles Waters about the dedication he wrote for his book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, co-authored by Irene Latham and illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner, 2018).

Can I Touch Your Hair? is just one of the titles included in the September 2024 book giveaway that I’m doing for subscribers to my monthly Bartography Express newsletter (folks can sign up here).

Four Bartography Express subscribers will win one copy of each giveaway title — multiple winners, multiple books! If you’d like one of those winners to be you, by the end of September 2024 either say so in the comments below or email me directly, and you’ll be in the running. (U.S. mailing addresses only.)

Thanks for watching, and please visit the main This One’s Dedicated to… page for more episodes and a look at who Jennifer and I will be talking with soon.