Author: Joyce Carol Thomas
Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Genre: Poetry: Multicultural
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Age: 2nd-5th grade
Summary: This book is filled with poems about African Americans. Each poem is about a certain shade of skin. The names of the poems and the colors of the skin go from "Blacker the Berry" to "toast". The poems are explaining why skin can be a certain shade and how skin got to be that way.
Response: The poems and images in this book are very cute and they all relate to each other. This book is a good way to boost a child's self-esteem, if they are ever wondering about the way they look. This book is saying that no matter what color a person's skin is, they are beautiful no matter what.
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