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Book Review: The Bakery Dragon

The Bakery Dragon is a children’s fantasy book written and illustrated by Devin Elle Kurtz. It was published in 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House is the parent company). The story is about a little dragon named Ember who, like all dragons, loves gold more than anything. Problem is, he doesn’t have a hoard of gold like the other dragons (who are much bigger and intimidating than him). While the bigger dragons can spew out fire and scare people into giving them gold, Ember can only spew out a small flame and cannot scare villagers into giving him anything. In his search for gold, he comes across a kind baker who teaches him how to bake tasty “gold,” and he learns that this tasty gold is even better when it is shared. I enjoyed the story, as well as the moral about sharing with others is much better than stealing and hoarding. The writing is good, but since this is a children’s book, I feel the biggest strength is the illustrations. The illustrations are beautiful, and Devin E...

White History Month

I’m sick of white people

Who look at us and scoff,

And smirk with contempt

Holding their heads aloft


As if those with black skin

And those of a different race

Are not worthy of existing

Or of being in “their” space.


I’m sick of their mockery

Of our struggles and pain

As they jeer “It’s not real,

You just want to complain.”


I’m sick of them saying,

“You don’t need black history month.

You just want to be victims,

What about a white history month?”


My sister cried

Because she was stressed

By jealous, ignorant white people

Whose souls were an evil mess.


They paid her back with rudeness

When she gave them kindness.

She offered them kind words

And they responded with silence.


And even after all

The racist things they do,

They will still say, “We’re not racist,

We have black friends, like you.”


Even after all

The racist things they say,

They will still say, “We are Christians,

In Jesus name we pray!”


I’m sick of this racist nonsense.

It is sick and it is evil.

Forget your white history month,

You are full of the devil!

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