Children’s Book Features African-American Nun

Sister Anne’s Hands, written by Marybeth Lorbiecki and beautifully illustrated by K. Wendy Popp, is a neat little book about an African-American nun in an unnamed religious order teaching white European ethnic school children in an unnamed city during the 1960’s. When Sister Anne is the subject of a racial comment, she uses the incident as a teaching opportunity to show her students what’s going in the Civil Rights-era South. In the process she touches the lives of her students in a way that they will never forget. A great book for the kids!