‘Love Like Sky’ Is A Tale for Kids of Blended Families

I love the idea that everyone has stories, at least one, inside of them. With that on the brain I also look to the quote “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it” by the late and great Toni Morrison. Author Leslie C. Youngblood has traveled a long journey, one more than fifteen years long, to land her two-book deal with Disney Hyperion and tell this particular story — Love Like Sky. It is about little girls in a blended family learning how to redefine familial connections and knowing there is love big enough for all.

  “Well, that’s the kind of love that Daddy and Mama got for us. Peaches–love like sky.” “It never ends?” “Never.”

Meet Georgie and Peaches Georgie aka G-baby is 11 years old and one thing she knows for certain is that she is her little sister’s favorite person in the whole wide world. Little sister Peaches, who is a happy six-year-old, loves how G-baby dances. She loves to hangout and sleep in G-baby’s room. Most of all she loves asking G-baby all the questions because she knows that her big sister will have all the answers and she won’t treat her like a baby. Peaches clings to G-baby — the two sisters are still in an adjustment period. Their parents are divorced and the two girls are part of a new family: their new stepfather Frank adores their mother and their new older stepsister Tangie avoids the girls like they have the plague. Tangie is made of cool, teenage, older sister material which has …