
The digital illustrations feature details that feel just right: Zuri’s thick, textured hair, Daddy’s locs and tattoo, and dark-skinned Mom’s bright headwrap. He nailed it!” Zuri is lovely and happy with her freshly done hairstyle, and when Mommy arrives to their “Welcome Home” sign, she loves Zuri’s look too. “Watching carefully… / Daddy combed, / parted, oiled, and twisted. Finally, Zuri grabs some hair supplies and shows him a tutorial.

When Daddy wakes and offers to help, he tries a series of hairstyles that just don’t work.

She knows Daddy is “worn-out” and probably needs a break, so she lets him sleep in while she looks up hairstyles on a tablet. She is proud of her hair, which she sometimes wears in braids with beads like a princess and other times in pigtail puffs.

It kinks, coils, and curls every which way.” She is pictured asleep with a large Afro framing her face. Zuri’s voluminous head of hair “has a mind of its own. A black girl helps her dad learn how to give her the perfect hairstyle for a very special day.
