A review by eirenophile
Earth Mother by Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, Ellen Jackson

5.0

This is a special book. The illustrations are really beautiful and the black earth mother with her changing African* clothes set in a non-Euro-based Earth (nevertheless, totally universalized in an awesome way) is great. It is short enough to work really well as a read-aloud bedtime book, but unlike many bedtime books it actually has a narrative to accompany Earth Mother's sojourn across the land (basically, what should she do to appease her children, who all want different things from her). I almost shelved this in books for feminist babies, because it certainly supports an eco-feminist agenda, but it has humanity represented as "Man" (both in visual representation and name), and so I decided to leave it off.

I want it.

* it totally might be some specific group's clothing style, but I wouldn't know ...