Then, Parker walks by Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama…and almost passes it. Four-year-old Parker Curry is the co-author, with her mother, of children's book Parker Looks Up, about her viral moment gazing at former First Lady Michelle Obama's official portrait by Amy Sherald. Parker Looks Up follows Parker, along with her baby sister and her mother, and her best friend Gia and Gia’s mother, as they walk the halls of a museum, seeing paintings of everyone and everything from George Washington Carver to Frida Kahlo, exotic flowers to graceful ballerinas. 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. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. She saw a queen-one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl’s imagination. 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. : Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (A Parker Curry Book) (9781534451865) by Curry, Parker Curry, Jessica and a great selection of. 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. Beginning readers will be able to spend time with their friend Parker, who is also learning to read in this series featuring Parker Curry, the little girl whose reaction to a portrait of Michelle Obama went viral.

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