Aisha Boubacar, now 15, wrote and illustrated a children’s book during the pandemic lockdown for young Black readers to appreciate their natural hair. (Submitted by Kate Lavut) Aisha Boubacar’s quarantine hairstyle experiment quickly turned into a bona fide writing project. While many were trying to cope with being separated from their trusted hairstylist during the lockdown period, Boubacar, then 14, embarked on what she calls a love story with her Afro-textured hair by writing a children’s book, Crowned in Curls. “I started thinking a lot about why I didn’t love my natural hair, which is a part of me,” she said. The rhyming story inspired by her childhood follows Imani,…