MOM WRITES BOOK TO HELP KIDS TALK ABOUT DIFFERENCES
“This is me,” Sheriauna said proudly when she saw the book her mom Sherylee Honeyghan had published.
The cover is of a young black girl wearing a tiara, smiling at herself in the mirror. She has one hand.
Growing up, Sheriauna, now 10, didn’t see herself in the books and toys around her. Dolls “aren’t black, don’t have hair like me and have two hands,” she’d tell her mom. The only time Sheriauna saw herself was when she drew her own pictures. “She always drew herself wit