Aria's Rockin' Poufs: A love affair with kinky, coily, curly hair

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: While this book is for children ages 5 to 9 years old, the life lesson is timeless.) Aria wants to straighten her kinky, coily, curly hair. No more puffy poufs. Is her desire really about hair? Or is the little black girl trying to change how she looks and who she is in order to fit in? “I want my hair straight and smooth, not kinky. I want to wear my hair down like the other girls,” Aria says. Queen-A, her grandmother and pouf-master stylist, knows the feeling. She thought the same thing when she was Aria’s age. It took a long time, but Queen-A finally realized that her hair wasn’t the issue. What really mattered was what Queen-A thought about herself – the color of her skin and the texture of her hair. And now it is time for Queen-A to share that lesson with Aria. “I thought I needed to look a certain way to be successful,” Queen-A tells Aria. “Then little by little, I came to myself… It was OK for me to be me. I didn’t have to fit in. I was finally free.’’ Aria gets the message. And wait until you see what new hairstyle she comes up with. Aria’s Rockin’ Poufs is the third book in the Sisters for Life, Best Friends Forever series of children’s books created by the multimedia company Colored Girl Wisdom, LLC.