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Storytime with Parker & Jessica Curry


*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 06/12/2020
Join us for virtual storytime and life lessons with Parker Curry, and her mom Jessica Curry, authors of PARKER LOOKS UP!

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A visit to Washington, DC's National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry's young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait.

When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald's transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn't just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queen--one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl's imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. Inspired by this visit, Parker, and her mother, Jessica Curry, tell the story of a young girl and her family, whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment, in a moving picture book.

Parker saw the possibility and promise, the hopes and dreams of herself in this powerful painting of Michelle Obama. An everyday moment became an extraordinary one...that continues to resonate its power, inspiration, and indelible impact. Because, as Jessica Curry said, "anything is possible regardless of race, class, or gender."

Get the book: https://bookshop.org/books/parker-looks-up-an-extraordinary-moment/9781534451865?a=591

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Parker Curry is four years old, and is a full-time Pre-K 3 student. She is precocious and talkative with a love for ballet and books. She lives with her mother, father, and younger sister in Washington, DC.

Jessica Curry is a New York Times published author, writer, work-at-home full-time mother to two little girls, Parker and Ava. Her blog, Happy Mama, Happy Babies--a motherhood and lifestyle blog that chronicles their adventures--has been mentioned in The Washington Post, The Grio, Heavy, Daily Mail (London), ESPN's The Undefeated, and on the Emmy Award-winning talk show The Real by Tamera Mowry-Housley, further inspiring Jessica to share candid, honest moments and memories of Parker, Ava, and their family. She and her family live in Washington, DC.


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Location:

ONLINE ONLY
Contact name: 
Lauren Casey
The event has already taken place on this date: 
06/12/2020
Time: 
10:30am