Updated: 5:53 AM PST, February 28, 2021 Author Nancy Redd said she wrote her first children's book "Bedtime Bonnet" for her daughter, who didn't want to wear a bonnet because she never saw her favorite characters from the books she loved to read wearing one. There was a time that 6-year-old Nancy Bhattacharya hated wearing her bonnet. She never saw her favorite characters from the books she loved to read wearing one, so despite having textured hair that would be damaged by a normal pillow case, she didn’t think it was for her. “Because she’d never seen anybody besides me and her grandma wearing a bonnet, she presumed bonnets were just for old people,” her mom, Nancy Redd, told Inside Edition Digital. “Whenever you see a [Black] female cartoon character laying down at night, her hair was never protected by bonnet, which most people who actually live a Black experience know, that is inaccurate assessment of how we sleep.”