Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Thought Provoking......For Adults That Is

I found myself contemplating this book several times.....and researching author and illustrator voice and training. If Giovanni intends to be thought provoking than she has achieved her goal, but the format is one that I found depressing and racially sterotypical. The images by Raschka evoke the "pickninny" in history.....the wild romping of an African-American child could be drawn straight out of the lewd cartoons presented to us in Jim Crowe illustrations. The only vibrant part of the illustrations are the elements that are not of the central characters being the sky and the dresses. Though Giovanni presents a lyrical concept the work is destroyed by illustrations that present a negative image of the "black loom."