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Brown is beautiful. Brown is powerful!

Perfect for fans of Hair Love and Antiracist Baby, this lyrically written, stunningly illustrated picture book is a love letter to the beauty of brown skin and a message of love, acceptance, and pride for all brown sugar babes. A classic in the making!

When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! “Brown is precious. Brown is feet marching for human rights…. Brown is an after-bedtime-story kiss goodnight.”

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ISBN-13:	9781635921380
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	453,320
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD760L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Charlotte Watson Sherman grew up in Seattle, a city with natural beauty that inspired her love for the color brown (and green and blue). She now lives in California near a marine sanctuary.

Akem is an illustrator and writer who lives in Vancouver, BC. This is her first picture book.

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12/23/2019
When a brown-skinned child proclaims that their skin color is pink, their mother rejoins with a rhyming poem that celebrates the beauty of brown in myriad forms: “Bubbling brown sugar babe/ honeyed and bright as marmalade.” While some of the imagery is less effective than others (“Brown smells like pinecones and mulberry bush/ woodchips, coffee beans,/ and purple asparagus”), the text overall provides a creative and uplifting celebration of brownness, from “feet/ marching for/ human rights” to “a sand dollar glinting/ on the beach in winter” and “pancakes and syrup/ and caramel and spice.” Warm digital spreads by Akem, in her picture book debut, extend the poem’s messages with stippled, textured digital backgrounds in wide-ranging shades of brown. An author’s note from Sherman (Touch for adults) offers insight into her motivation for writing the book, as well as historical references to landmark studies that have underscored institutional racism’s profound damage to children’s self-esteem. Ages 4–8. Illustrator’s agent: Michelle Witte, Mansion Street Literary Management. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

This is the book I want to give to my future daughter, this is the book I want to read to her before bedtime on the days that have brought us tears. In a world that regularly attempts to assert that darker skin, that brown skin, isn’t worthy, this particular read is endearing and lovingly ready to be a contender to such attitudes.” —Black Nerd Problems

"Warm images of children and loving adults in gold and dark browns hues complement the rhyming, poetic text, which is set in a large type that emulates hand printing. Perfect for responding to or preventing the feelings of inadequacy that too often plague brown-skinned children, this book begs to be shared as a read-aloud with cuddles. Soul food." — Kirkus Reviews

"When a brown-skinned child proclaims that their skin color is pink, their mother rejoins with a rhyming poem that celebrates the beauty of brown in myriad forms. (T)he text... provides a creative and uplifting celebration of brownness. Warm digital spreads by Akem, in her picture book debut, extend the poem’s messages with stippled, textured digital backgrounds in wide-ranging shades of brown."— Publishers Weekly

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2019-11-24
A caregiver responds to a child's misgivings about being brown skinned by extolling the beauty of being a "brown sugar babe."
Brown feet in toe shoes step over lion paw prints; a silhouetted figure wears a large Afro. An adult addresses a child: "When you were born, it was dark / behind your sleeping eyes." Soon after discovering "a world of color," the child declares, "I'm pink," and resists when the adult responds, "You're brown like me." The adult then lavishes upon the child—and readers—an almost dizzying number of endearing, beautiful, and often unusual expressions of what brown means. Brown is silent, like "tree rings that tell time," or loud, like "the squeal of a violin." Brown is accomplishments, like "a tutu and ballet slippers / poised to take flight," and brown is affection, like "an after-bedtime-story / kiss goodnight." Brown "has its own special flavor," feel, smell, and sound. Warm images of children and loving adults in gold and dark browns hues complement the rhyming, poetic text, which is set in a large type that emulates hand printing. Perfect for responding to or preventing the feelings of inadequacy that too often plague brown-skinned children, this book begs to be shared as a read-aloud with cuddles.
Soul food. (Picture book. 3-9)

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