The Book of Legends by Henry Henry

Henry was reminded of his own experiences as a preteen reader in Dudley, alternately omitted or belittled by the literature available to him. Henry says he has meant to write a children's book for middle-grade readers that would be both a decent yarn and an invitation to the dance for a young and black audience. When he finally got up the momentum on his own fiction, Henry says he wrote everywhere. He devised the boy with wings as a superhero story because when I was young, there weren't any who looked like me. The Book of Legends became a quest novel because he does the voice of a funk DJ. You never see no brothers on a quest. Both were thrilling sag